Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“A writer is like a bean plant—he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman—Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)