Mel Brooks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
-
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
-
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for 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.
-
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an 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.
-
Elves are cool, man.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Money? I lost all taste for it.
-
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!
-
We all have to make choices in life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
-
I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.
-
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
-
You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.
-
I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.
-
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
-
You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.
