Mel Brooks Quotes

You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• Money? I lost all taste for it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Taste

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Make

• Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Different
  • Think
  • Story

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sometimes
  • Worry
  • Start

• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reason
  • Religious
  • Conflict

• I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Important
  • Like
  • Traditions

• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Country
  • Racism

• I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Green

• White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Country
  • America
  • Black

• I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

  

  Emma Stone
  • Grilled cheese

• You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.

  

  Mel Brooks