“My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.” ChildrenLongSaidStoriesLaughingCuttingBrotherJokesCompetitionWitMy BrotherThey SaidLong Story Author:Stephen Colbert
“My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.” SaidUsedFoundBrotherLettersUsed To BeMy BrotherMumFamily HistoryFellas Author:Paul McCartney
“Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.” YearsWellsLittlesSaidUsedBrotherMy BrotherCrushDiana Author:Michael Jackson
“Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said "if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke." It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.” IfsChildrenSaidRealFilmPiecesBrotherHairJokesMouthsMakeupScarMinimumEyebrowsChinsShampooExorcistWarner BrothersReal Hair Author:Linda Blair
“Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?” WaySaidWarLawYoungCoursesFourBrotherHusbandBrokeJournalistInterviewsMy HusbandIn-lawsBrother In Law Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
“Professor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.” WorldWritingSaidHardFormLinesWonderComedyBrotherMastersCouplePerformancesIncludingScriptsAlbumsStealingImpressionHard TimesNonsenseProfessorsTimingPurpleOnionsImpeccableGreat Performance Author:Tommy Smothers
“I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidChristianNationsWhiteChristianityBrotherEuropeClaimsDiscussionGreekEmpiresWhite ManBrothers And SistersArmeniansChristian NationByzantine Author:Immortal Technique
“Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.” YearsSaidFatherSonBrotherHarderPopsPlumsYounger Brother Author:Charles Koch
“Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that if you don't do what we tell you, the sky will fall. If you don't do what we tell you, it will be the end of capitalism as we know it. The failure of Lehman Brothers lent some credence to those fears.” IfsKnowsSaidWarEndsUsedFallSkyStreetsBrotherWallCapitalismTerrorTacticsWar On TerrorCredenceLehman Brothers Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.” PeopleSaidBookStoriesVoiceBrotherMessagesConstantContradictionArrangementsCollectingPuzzledGrimmInformantsBrothers GrimmTrue Woman Author:Marina Warner
“We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family; it's just that we wanted more than Raleigh, North Carolina, had to offer. If my brother wanted more than Raleigh had to offer, you would know his name. My sister Lisa has a really unique and different voice, but she doesn't want that. She's a fine writer, but never said, "I want a book. I want that kind of attention."” IfsKnowsWantKindSaidBookDifferentWantedNamesVoiceAttentionSpecialBrotherFineOffersUniqueMy FamilyOur FamilyMy BrotherMy SisterAmbitiousCarolinaNorth CarolinaDifferent VoicesRaleigh Author:David Sedaris
“I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."” NeedsShouldSaidRememberNextStepsCareersBrotherMomConversationMy MomEightNineMy BrotherBroadwayNext StepsSam Jackson Author:Aldis Hodge
“n terms of the logistics of that from a title perspective, we have not talked about that nor do we typically care very much. We're not large on bureaucracy. My brothers and I said to each other when we started in this business that as a collective we can do far more than any one of us can do individually. And that's really what guides our relationship - this sense of camaraderie. And it is a family business, and we work together collaboratively as a family.” SaidCareTogetherTermCan DoBrotherPerspectiveGuidesTitlesMy BrotherCollectivesWorking TogetherOur RelationshipBureaucracyCamaraderieLogistics Author:Ivanka Trump
“I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"” SaidDoorsBrotherWallMirrorsMirror Mirror On The Wall Author:Alec Baldwin
“I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.” SaidHardMomentsUsedLinesRaceBrotherFitTrackBoxesHillsMy BrotherPoundsHoneyCollecting Author:Edmund Hillary
“The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be able to look after my mum. So when I could, I bought her a house and then I got her a car as well and I got her a little air freshener to put in her car and on it, it said "life is a journey not a destination."” WellsLooksLittlesSaidAbleWantedLife IsHouseGrowing UpGrowingAirJourneyCarBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherDestinationMumLife Is A JourneySaid Life Author:John Newman
“I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother. To me, he just - I sum it up that he's my anchor, my rock, my foundation in life, that my life was - had an emptiness - a deep, dark void with something - it had a lot of fulfillment externally, but something inside said there's more.” GivingSaidI CanDarkRocksBrotherFoundationFulfillmentEmptinessAttributesVoidAnchorsHealerCounselorDeep Dark Author:Paula White
“At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in the house from morning to night, either cooking or doing nothing. [My mother] hated doing nothing, she hated to cook. So she became pale and ill, and far from being concerned about her health, my grandfather said, 'Who's going to marry her now?' So my grandmother waited for my grandfather to go out, and then she dressed my mother as a man and let her go out riding with her brothers.” MenSaidMotherNightCertainHouseMorningBrotherConcernedCookingMovedIllCooksHatedGrandmotherRidingGrandfatherPaleMy GrandmotherDoing NothingMy GrandfatherLet Her GoPurdah Author:Indira Gandhi
“My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.” IfsWantLooksSaidShowsWantedBrotherBottomProducersMy BrotherShow BusinessStepfathers Author:Cary Elwes
“When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.” SaidStatesKidsNightSpeakSoundVoiceUnitedUnited StatesSweetBrotherMonthsBrokeTeenagerSpokesDucksChordsVocalOne NightElevenShatteredParrotsOlder BrotherVietnamese Author:Andrew Lam
“[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."” KnowsMadeSaidBrotherConnections Author:Kendrick Lamar
“As far as Ken Kwapis saying all those things, I think he just really wanted me in the movie so he probably told Warner Brothers, 'Don't worry, Jimmy Stewart? Gary Cooper? Who else do you like?' If they'd said they were huge Chris Farley fans, he's like, 'He can do that, too. He's a huge physical comedian.' But no, that's really nice to hear.” IfsThinkingSaidWantedCan DoWorryNiceFansBrotherHugeComedianJimmyReally NiceGaryJimmy StewartWarner Brothers Author:John Krasinski
“Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha.” PeopleSaidBodyFourBrotherFollowingAidsBombsMarineNovemberMassacresRoadsideFour BrothersUs Marine Author:James Mattis
“When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.” MenSaidKidsYoungFoundJesusAnswersBoysBrotherDadAskingMy DadMy BrotherFew Words Author:Max Lucado
“If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.” PeopleIfsMenWritingSaidImportantWould BeBeautifulDiesCausesWhitePlanetsBrotherBrownWhite ManGrandchildrenAbolitionistJohn Brown Author:Dick Gregory
“My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanWantedLawWinningSupportGroupsLove YouBrotherMomDadMy DadMy MomMy BrotherMy SisterAuntIn-lawsLotteryReunionYour Best FriendNephewNieceFamily ReunionSupport GroupsBrother In LawNiece And NephewImmediate Family Author:Carrie Underwood
“I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.” IfsSaidI CanFactsBigsActionStrongWillingBrotherCompetitionInternationalHeightSwimVery StrongGesturesChampionshipAction MovieDiving Author:Jackie Chan
“For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination. But early on in my walk of faith I said a very personal prayer and made a commitment to God. I said if you reveal yourself to me in a way that is more thrilling and powerful and exciting than anything I've experience thus far, then I'll go anywhere and do whatever you want. And that can be very tough.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMadeSaidChristianBornPrayerWalksPowerfulCrazyBrotherCommitmentToughConcernedHollywoodExcitingCombinationThrillingCommitment To GodEvangelicalBorn AgainThink Of MeCharismaticDo Whatever You WantEvangelists Author:Stephen Baldwin
“[Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on its own.Two hours where we spoke as brothers, sincerely and no one knows what was spoke about, only what we said at the end publicly about how we felt as we spoke.” KnowsSaidTwoEndsAgeFeltHoursBrotherConversationOld AgeMy BrotherSpokesOrthodoxSincerelyPatriarch Author:Pope Francis
“I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.” KnowsFirstsSaidIdeasHappensActingClassSawsCarBrotherEatingSittingMy FriendsCardsAgentsNo IdeaRanMy BrotherSunsetWhy NotLunchAlrightTheatricalActing ClassesBoulevardSunset BoulevardEating Lunch Author:George Stults
“You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.” WaySaidCertainBrotherBelovedEldersBeloved Brother Book:Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995 Source: Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995
“I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.” SaidEnoughShowsWantedMovingSongBrotherTvsWindowChocolateTv ShowsOrangeWashingCountyOrange County Author:Pat Paulsen