Famous quotes containing the words jim and/or brooks:
“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)
“We want nights
Of vague adventure, lips lax wet and warm,
Bees in the stomach, sweat across the brow. Now.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)