Top 100 Morrison's Quotes

#1. God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish." (Life Hacks, p.61)

Jon Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #3199
#2. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

Dinaw Mengestu

Morrison's Quotes #4305
#3. My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #26205
#4. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #28278
#5. Milkman could hardly breathe. Hagar's voice scooped up what little pieces of heart he had left to call his own.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #31253
#6. I guess there's so much more I have to learn,
But if you're here with me, I know which way to turn
You always give me somewhere, somewhere I can run,
You make it real for me

James Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #32422
#7. In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Jennifer Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #32901
#8. Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Shelley Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #34903
#9. I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.

Jennifer Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #51938
#10. I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

Jennifer Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #55440
#11. I know that I'll move on, I tell myself I'll find me something better
I'll let go and just forget her
She was no good for me
Deep down I know that's the way it has to be so
How come I still can't open this letter
I can't forget her...

James Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #62789
#12. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #91973
#13. Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

Maurice Gibb

Morrison's Quotes #100973
#14. At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #103189
#15. It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #106924
#16. What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #108500
#17. It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #108882
#18. Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #109308
#19. I'm not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I know in my job I have to use it. I wish I could say I got to this point in my career based on my talent, but I don't think that's true.

Matthew Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #111074
#20. You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #112890
#21. No, and if it's not your brain thinking cold, cold thoughts, which you can dress in any kind of mood, then it's nothing. It has to be a cold, cold thought. I mean cold, or cool at least. Your brain. That's all there is.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #118982
#22. Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #135953
#23. Gimme hate, Lord," he whimpered. "I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it ... It's too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain't it heavy? Jesus? Ain't love heavy?

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #142895
#24. I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Steve Bisley

Morrison's Quotes #153710
#25. Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #158130
#26. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #161047
#27. Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #172685
#28. Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #173594
#29. There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #175587
#30. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #176546
#31. It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #181066
#32. It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #187155
#33. It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #190362
#34. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #192696
#35. Maybe I don't believe in God. Maybe I only I believe in culture.
Maybe he's onto something.

Suzanne Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #197608
#36. My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #208659
#37. The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

Ray Manzarek

Morrison's Quotes #211994
#38. When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else's child, do your eyes light up? That's what they're looking for.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #219295
#39. Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #219553
#40. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #221579
#41. I want to be Gwyneth Paltrow when I grow up! She's been able to have such a great career, such a great family and she stays so humble and so real.

Matthew Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #226556
#42. My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

Matthew Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #236738
#43. If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance. Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

Caroline Kepnes

Morrison's Quotes #238505
#44. It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #240748
#45. She is a friend to my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, ya know, when you got a woman who's a friend to your mind.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #242906
#46. You should put it on your business cards - Tom Paretski, the pocket-sized plumber. No job too small."
"Again with the height jokes. What do you have on yours? Phil Morrison, the muscle-bound moron?"
"Now, come on - that's poor effort. How about Private Dick - the biggest in the business?"

J.L. Merrow

Morrison's Quotes #243717
#47. I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?" Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #249074
#48. Evil is the most difficult problem in the world. It is also the strongest objection to God's existence. If God does exist, it is also the most problematic challenge to his nature and power. As a Christian, it is my greatest temptation for doubt and unbelief.

Jon Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #255625
#49. He's got a thing for Alex Riley.

John Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #257610
#50. Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #257692
#51. Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)

J.G. Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #271805
#52. It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #279682
#53. I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

Jennifer Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #286460
#54. In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #287583
#55. Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #289142
#56. Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #290708
#57. I think there's a secret part of me that would like to drop my entire life off a cliff and watch it break into a million pieces

Suzanne Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #294293
#58. Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #299216
#59. The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #322928
#60. A little bird'll be here with the morning." "Oh?" said the rose-petal lady. "Tomorrow morning?" "That's the only morning coming." "It can't be," the rose-petal lady said. "It's too soon." "No it ain't. Right on time.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #329819
#61. Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #330163
#62. It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #345356
#63. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #355823
#64. There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #359423
#65. It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #360726
#66. I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #361741
#67. Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #366044
#68. I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #377739
#69. It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #382178
#70. A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #394449
#71. There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises ...
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #406125
#72. I always know the ending; that's where I start.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #415963
#73. When he visited his and Adam's old bedroom, the thread of disapproval he'd felt during his proposal of a memorial became a rope, as he saw the savage absence not only of Adam but of himself. So when he shut the door on his family and stepped out into the rain it was an already belated act.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #419785
#74. People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security ... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #421658
#75. You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #431958
#76. Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.

Ray Manzarek

Morrison's Quotes #439022
#77. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #453782
#78. Make up a story ... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #459300
#79. I've learned it's always easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.

Dan Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #462980
#80. Wow! She's hot." Morrison commented while gaping lewdly at the body lying supine on the bed.
Insensitive asshole. I took a deep breath to calm my rising anger. "She's dead agent Morrison. I assure you she's very cold." I rebuked sharply.

P.A. Lupton

Morrison's Quotes #475553
#81. I eat kung pao chicken like it's going out of style, but I'm pretty sure I don't have an Asian cell in my body. I love Toni Morrison novels although I'm not black. I'm straight and I'm happily married. The reason I work here is because I think you deserve that, too.

Jodi Picoult

Morrison's Quotes #478280
#82. Kind of smart guesser, ain't you, young man? Can't wait for folks to get their mouth open hardly." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Morrison. This is an important matter to us - " "This here young man don't seem to have no trouble keepin' his mouth in place." "He's married," I said. "He's had practice.

Raymond Chandler

Morrison's Quotes #490846
#83. He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #496132
#84. Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #507217
#85. Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #525985
#86. A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #540937
#87. And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Grant Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #548565
#88. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #557692
#89. I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #560270
#90. It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #591188
#91. In all the shows I've done, I'm always the first to leave - it's in my make-up.

Matthew Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #591668
#92. I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #591721
#93. I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean a thing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #601506
#94. We're not put on earth to one day leave it behind. This world is our home. The second coming will not bring the destruction of this earth, but the fulfillment of creation. "Behold! I am making all things new."

S.D. Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #603827
#95. There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr ...

Jim Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #606911
#96. I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #632387
#97. There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

Van Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #635283
#98. Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways!

Jennifer Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #641839
#99. 124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #642075
#100. I stood there a long while, staring at that tree.
It looked so strong
So beautiful.
Hurt right down the middle
But alive and well.
Cee touched my shoulder
Lightly.
Frank?
Yes?
Come on, brother. Let's go home.

Toni Morrison

Morrison's Quotes #652479

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