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Phillips Brooks Quotes

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893

Topics

Life Work World Literature Marble

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Truth Man Effort Book Search Never

As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses.

Family Me Giving Friends Person Get

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

Michael Cudlitz

Mind Moving Doing Attention Body

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Good Good Teacher Teacher Very

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Kind Only Works

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Reading Friends Believing Farewell

I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.

Work Time Best Think Out Publishing

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

Way More Than Failed Succeeded

Contrary to popular belief, I do occasionally get to watch TNA, mostly on fast forward, but Bobby Roode is one of the guys... solid, solid guy.

Forward Fast Belief Watch Guy Get

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

Thinking Done Without Been Just

Chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons should never be used.

Never Nuclear Weapons Used Chemical

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

Jazz Improvise Given Performer

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