Top 100 Morton Quotes
#1. This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
Robert Teeter
#2. Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
#3. Books are good, and I read my share, and TV's okay if you're stuck in a motel room during a rainstorm, but for Jamie Morton, there was nothing like a movie up there on the big screen.
Stephen King
#4. There's something I want to say in this space, but it's an emptiness where there's usually a hug. - Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972
David Eso
#5. If Mrs. Morton would stop verbally jacking off her husband and son, this would all be done so much more quickly, but then Chess figured it was just about the only sex the woman got.
Stacia Kane
#6. I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp ... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.
Eric Clapton
#7. Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.
Spike Jonze
#8. The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."
Wynton Marsalis
#9. I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.
Melanie Lynskey
#10. When Morton Silkline reached the hall, his customer was just flapping out a small window. Quite suddenly, Morton Silkline found the floor.
Richard Matheson
#11. I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
Tasha Smith
#12. Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.
Anna D. Shapiro
#13. You look peaceful," he tells her. "Maybe that's what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall." Morton
Jennie Fields
#15. American naturalist William Morton Wheeler made the English term popular as the study of "habits and instincts."11
Frans De Waal
#16. There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.
Kate Morton
#17. The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Samuel George Morton
#18. Time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient.
Kate Morton
#19. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#20. She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
Kate Morton
#21. And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ...
Kate Morton
#22. My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton
#23. Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him.
Kate Morton
#24. I should think less of myself if no one disliked me.
Kate Morton
#25. I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jelly Roll Morton
#26. Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
Kate Morton
#27. Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.
Nelle Morton
#28. There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.
Lisa Morton
#29. The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.
Brian Morton
#30. The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.
Morton T. Kelsey
#31. There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton
#32. For home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
Kate Morton
#33. When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.
Kate Morton
#34. Murder in and of itself was not engaging; it was the drive to kill, the human factor, the fervors and furies motivating the dreadful act that rendered it compelling. Alice
Kate Morton
#35. ...it seemed hope's glimmer always hovered in the distance, no matter how long one journeyed towards it without success.
Kate Morton
#36. The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you're doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.
Brian Morton
#37. A library is a room where the murders take place.
J.B. Morton
#38. Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.
John Morton
#39. The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.
Brian Morton
#40. made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess.
Kate Morton
#41. But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
Henry Morton Stanley
#42. The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
Joe Morton
#43. You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, ... A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting.
Kate Morton
#44. I've spoken to Sid," she admits. "He says he's never seen Charlie so bad. He won't eat, he's lost weight and he looks terrible. Sid says it's the first time he's ever been so bored by him that he's considered smothering him.
Lily Morton
#45. Which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?
Kate Morton
#46. I am naked because I am going for a swim," he says happily. Then he laughs loudly, clutching his side. "Oh Johnny you look like an outraged Victorian chaperone. You just need a pearl necklace to clutch." He waggles his eyebrows lecherously. "I can definitely help you out with that.
Lily Morton
#47. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#48. There was a lid for each pot, she'd told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she'd found her lid in my grandfather.
Kate Morton
#50. Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.
Kate Morton
#51. I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
Samantha Morton
#52. Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.
Henry Morton Stanley
#53. I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart.
H.V. Morton
#54. She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free ...
Kate Morton
#55. lawyers' offices to sign the immunity agreement, her grandmother, Bernice, had said, "At last I can sleep at night." A few
Andrew Morton
#56. When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc.
Peter Morton
#58. Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
Kate Morton
#59. His kisses were too rote; they were assembly-line kisses. She wanted complex kisses; she wanted each kiss to be a conversation.
Brian Morton
#60. The list is long and its keeper bitter.
Kate Morton
#61. A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
Kate Morton
#62. You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.
Brian Morton
#63. Dragonflies didn't imagine they could sense the future; they just flew about, enjoying the sun on their wings.
Kate Morton
#64. There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
Brian Morton
#65. Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Kate Morton
#66. Then lifted the book to my nose and breathed the ink in from its pages. The scent of possibilities.
Kate Morton
#67. Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.
Morton Shaevitz
#70. Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion.
Kate Morton
#71. There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future with an eager heart...
H.V. Morton
#72. It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
Kate Morton
#73. Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
Morton Feldman
#75. One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J.B. Morton
#76. As an only child, Cassandra found the well-worn paths of sibling interaction fascinating and horrifying in equal parts.
Kate Morton
#77. He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
Kate Morton
#78. I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
#79. The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses.
Kate Morton
#80. I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
Joe Morton
#81. Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
Kate Morton
#82. Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
Morton Feldman
#83. The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good
not just once, but again and again until it is goodness that prevails in your life and in our world altogether.
John Morton
#84. If I could wish one thing for my children, it would be wisdom. If they have wisdom, then they'll know how to seek and find everything else in life that matters.
Donna Gentry Morton
#85. The wedding photographs were stained with black umbrellas.
Kate Morton
#86. Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
Kate Morton
#87. You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don't contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it.
Kyle Morton
#88. One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never fully escaped; it may submerge itself for a while, but it always returns in times of need to lay claim to the soul it shaped.
Kate Morton
#89. They say everyone needs something to love.
Kate Morton
#90. It's not easy, getting old, feeling one's relevance slip away.
Kate Morton
#91. All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
Kate Morton
#93. A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
Frederic Morton
#94. The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.
Kate Morton
#95. Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
Morton Feldman
#96. Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.
Frederic Morton
#98. You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,
Kate Morton
#99. The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Samuel George Morton
#100. His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
Kate Morton
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