Brook Quotes

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains.

You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instruction contained in it? She was going to a Brook to drink, and in her Way was to pass thro a Hedge, a Twig of which opposed her direct Course; one Head chose to go on the right side of the Twig, the other on the left, so that time was spent in the Contest, and, before the Decision was completed, the poor Snake died with thirst.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations.

Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone.

It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed.

I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen.

Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks;

we're just carrying the torch.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie.

The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York.

It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.