#ay

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alligators #connection #deal #distant #fantasy

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#cigar #cut #cutting #football #freshly

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#easier #home #hurts #stay #urges

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#became #began #early #fascinated #i

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#every #every day #like #month #next

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#becomes #could #does #had #happen

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#alive #arms #around #death #flap

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#decency #i #lacked #person #respect

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#bad taste #before #said #saying #should

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

#as far as #been #berlin #cole #cole porter