Mel Brooks Quotes

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

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• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Song
  • Image
  • Mental

• Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Important
  • Person

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Words
  • Prejudice

• It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Rejection
  • Street
  • Editors

• You cannot schedule death.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Death
  • You
  • Schedule

• The facts are on our side.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Facts
  • Side
  • Our

• We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Society
  • Principles
  • Liberal

• As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Got

• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it’s always pleasantly.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Up
  • Tree

• An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

  

  Jane Smiley

• UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Time

• I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • People
  • Life
  • Hair

• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  

  Farah Pahlavi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Political

• The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

  

  Kathleen Winsor
  • Work

• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Purpose

• As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

  

  Mel Brooks