Mark Mcmorris Quotes

#1. I would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

Laura Whitcomb

#2. The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Mark McMorris

#3. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#4. Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

Rachel Maddow

#5. Come alive, dead heart, and sing.

Kathy Acker

#6. Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.

Jonathan Gash

#7. He's tender and defenseless, as if every part of him is exposed. He's not the asshole I thought he was, not even close. What I see is someone broken and fierce. Someone loyal and hardened. Someone who could belong to me completely, and me to him.

Suzanne Young

#8. There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Mark McMorris

#9. Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

Mark McMorris

#10. Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

Mark McMorris

#11. Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

Mark McMorris

#12. A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

Mark McMorris

#13. The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Gay Talese

#14. As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.

Jon Ronson

#15. I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Mark McMorris

#17. A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

Mark McMorris

#18. The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

IO Tillett Wright

#20. My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Mark McMorris