"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926
"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926
"I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use." — James Brown, American singer, born 1933
"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it." — James Brown, American singer, born 1933
"Had a western newsman with a camera not been present at Quang Duc’s suicide, history might have taken a different turn." — Malcolm Browne, American photographer, born 1931