Terry Brooks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
-
I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
-
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
-
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
-
If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
-
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
-
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
-
I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.
-
There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
-
As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
-
I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
-
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
-
I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.
-
As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.
-
In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
-
We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
-
You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
-
The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.
-
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
-
If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.
-
You bring your children to school and they learn far more about Diwali than Christmas. I speak to the people who are from Brent and they’ve been having Muslim and Hindi days off. What it does is rob Britain of its community. Without our community we slip into a crime-riddled cesspool.
-
When you’re not patient, you start complaining. And the fact that you’re complaining is a sign that you’re not grateful.
-
I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.
-
If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
