Illuminations Morton Quotes

#1. civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.

Anton Chekhov

#2. Scars remind us we can live life without fear because no matter what happens, we'll heal. We'll get better.

Lindsey Fairleigh

#3. The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Ronnie James Dio

#4. In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Peter Porter

#5. I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Jeff Kinney

#6. And if our love was a story book
We would meet on the very first page
The last chapter would be about
How I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You...

J. Hampden Jackson

#7. 'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Siobhan Finneran

#8. Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Lucan

#9. There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Erich Fromm

#10. Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Amy Waldman

#11. You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Leslie Caron

#12. I got a picture [tattoo] of Mohammed Ali on my side with one of his quotes. That's my guy. I look up to him. I'm like his number one fan.

Carmelo Anthony

#13. What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.

Glenn Reynolds

#14. A thought is an idea in transit.

Pythagoras

#15. I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

Henry David Thoreau