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Terry Brooks Quotes

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 8, 1944

Topics

Imagination Think Country Away Well

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

Family Politics Economics Fashion Us

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Patience History Questions Biology

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Darkness Past You Behind Some Draw

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

God Wisdom Me Our Plain Commonly

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

World Miami America You Look Know

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

Work Man Me You Stage Tell

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Home Coffee School Band Kid Parking

There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too.

Great Problems Great Things Web Too

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

Funny Beginning Book Doing Never

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Food Bad Class Over Monopoly Corn

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

Long I Can Play Level Certain

I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

Believe Think Reality Problem You

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