Morey Quotes

#1. But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

Dick Van Dyke

#2. Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing. Most people just do it subconsciously." A

Michael Lewis

#3. A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, "It's impossible to know for sure".

Michael Lewis

#4. we have forgotten how to press our fingers
to the tilting planet's jugular and measure
her pulse. we have forgotten symbiosis,
that she is our mother.

we have forgotten that when we rape
our world we rape ourselves.

Beth Morey

#5. Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Daryl Morey

#6. My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

Morey Amsterdam

#7. you say
we were never
meant for this vowed life,
golden bands of only us, and death
do us part. you
say love like it's held in quotation marks,
that this union soured before
it started.

Beth Morey

#8. A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.

Morey Amsterdam

#9. Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

Walt Morey

#10. the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb.

Beth Morey

#11. I can't do anything without the ball so when I don't have it I have to go get it!

Daryl Morey

#12. People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door

Morey Amsterdam

#13. I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

Daryl Morey

#14. According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.

Morey Amsterdam

#15. Now, half an hour later, adrenaline thrust him into overdrive. Storms of shale and spall burst from the ground. Ropes of sweat braided his skin. He swung again and again. The heavy pick shattered earth. Digby was in a rhythm, a digging trance, that rare state of archaeological

Shaun Morey

#16. we have forgotten that we were born
of celestial cataclysm.

we have forgotten how to dance
bare-footed on the earth to the cadence
of our souls. we have forgotten the ritual
fires and the acrid tang of holy smoke
on our tongues.

Beth Morey

#17. Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Morey Amsterdam

#18. How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.

Charles Morey

#19. we have forgotten what night tastes like,
salted by full moon silver rupturing
the dark. we have forgotten how the skin
sings when the lunar fervor unfurls
across its follicles.

Beth Morey

#20. absence
looks like a lake bed flooded with sky
sounds like cotton howling
tastes like tear-stained pillows
smells like churning bile and burnt hair
feels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

Beth Morey

#21. Even the police have an unlisted number.

Morey Amsterdam

#22. i feel the spring breeze ruffling
the new-hatched damp of my unfurling
feathers; i see with eyes bleary from egg-dark
the shell clinging sticky to my screaming
beak.

Beth Morey

#23. I lead verbally, not by example.

Daryl Morey

#24. I am at the gates of my own destruction.

(Or so I'm told.)

Beth Morey

#25. Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Daryl Morey

#26. The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.

Walt Morey

#27. God,
is there no faith left?
He has not told. I
would not know Him if I saw Him.

Beth Morey

#28. us both his first and last name, and even

Morey Bernstein

#29. I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering.

Beth Morey

#30. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now

Beth Morey