Home / Quotes / Quote by Albert Brooks

Quote by Albert Brooks

“I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.”

Quote by Albert Brooks

Author

Albert Brooks, born on July 22, 1947, is a renowned American actor. He has made significant contributions to both film and television, known for his unique sense of humor and acting prowess. more

You May Also Like

“[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

Men Courage Virtue Security Bravery Meaningful Be Brave Have Courage Brave Man Fear And Courage Fear Courage Bravery And Courage Bravery And Fear

Book:Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.”

People States Government Please Mere Casts Dominant Despotism Schooled Mould School System Schools And Education School Education General Education Education And Freedom Government Education

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.”

Looks Given Causes Parent Sacred Engaged Entitled Hostage Schools And Education

Book:Lectures on Education

Source: Lectures on Education

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

Children States Moments Care Mother Institutions Schools And Education

Author:Karl Marx

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”

World Giving Whole Generations Youth Give Me Whole World Just One

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.”

Children Pay Our Children Profit

Author:James A. Baldwin

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Stills Ends Waiting Learning Achieve Conditions Distraction

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.”

“There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.”

Natural Fishes Goldfish

Author:Walt Disney

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

Thinking Way Different Would Be Fall Falling In Love My Way Different Things Been In Love

Author:Jane Austen