Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

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• I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Country
  • America
  • New

• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Happiness
  • Process

• You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • You
  • Everything
  • Insight

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Future
  • Today
  • Past

• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Hospital

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

  

  Carl Levin
  • World
  • Respect
  • Intelligence

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • People
  • You
  • Like

• Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Person
  • Find
  • Definitely

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Child
  • Old

• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Idea
  • Changed

• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffer
  • Human Heart
  • Murderer

• Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Training
  • Genius
  • Reaction

• Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Character
  • Habit
  • Virtue

• Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Genius
  • Virtue
  • Bright