#ma

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#around #cheerfulness #depends #fully #matter

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#because #better #friend #got #i

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#book #cannot #compared #early #get

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#blankets #cool #kindliness #kiss #male

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comfortably #die #dog #hot #hot dog

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! ↗

— James L. Brooks

#appreciation #fresh #general #great #holy

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#beautiful #because #dumb #get #most

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #expression #fighting #halls #housing

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#be humble #greatness #height #higher #humble