Top 100 Mosley Quotes
#1. Mosley is bigger than me. He's fast and his hand speed is still there. He's faster than most of my opponents. He's also preparing hard and he's also good, so we never underestimate our opponent.
Manny Pacquiao
#2. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.
Rachel Maddow
#3. Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
Ruth Rendell
#4. Shane Mosley is a dangerous fighter. He is bigger than Manny, strong and he still has his speed. He has never been stopped. He can take anyone's best punch and come back as strong as ever. He's so resilient. You can't hurt him.
Bob Arum
#5. Nobody can count Shane Mosley out. He is a good, good fighter, especially when he fights an aggressive opponent like Manny Pacquiao.
Bob Arum
#6. We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.
William Joyce
#7. My matchmakers said Shane would make the most entertaining fight for the fans. For pure name recognition Shane Mosley is the best fighter for marketability.
Bob Arum
#8. There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley
#9. Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
Clement Attlee
#10. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#11. We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
Walter Mosley
#12. It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
Nicholas Mosley
#13. We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.
Michael Mosley
#14. To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
Nicholas Mosley
#15. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
Walter Mosley
#16. It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.
Nicholas Mosley
#17. If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
Walter Mosley
#18. I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.
Michael Mosley
#19. I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
#20. Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you're human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.
Nicholas Mosley
#21. A lot of people ... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like ... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington ... people who are different, who are larger than life.
Walter Mosley
#22. It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.
Walter Mosley
#23. To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.
Michael Mosley
#24. This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
Walter Mosley
#25. But all of those things were possible back then even though nobody
Walter Mosley
#26. Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Oswald Mosley
#27. I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
Nicholas Mosley
#28. The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.
Walter Mosley
#29. What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?
Nicholas Mosley
#30. I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.
Michael Mosley
#31. Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
Oswald Mosley
#32. It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop
no, not only confusion but pain too.
Walter Mosley
#33. In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I was terrified, but I went and did it.
Michael Mosley
#34. I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.
Max Mosley
#35. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
Walter Mosley
#36. Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.
Walter Mosley
#37. But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.
Walter Mosley
#38. After all, people are people. Many become friends with their coworkers. Many have worked with their coworkers at previous companies.
Eric Mosley
#39. There's something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they're brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.
Max Mosley
#40. When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
Walter Mosley
#41. Till we recognize what's sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up.
Lacey Sturm
#42. I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#43. It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.
Walter Mosley
#44. Angel, you got checkout girls in these here grocery stores cain't feed their own kids right, jazz musicians workin' for the post office because music don't pay the charge of admission to a nightclub. You might love your work but one day you wake up and find that your work don't love you.
Walter Mosley
#45. Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.
Walter Mosley
#46. A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy ...
Walter Mosley
#47. It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international dope smuggling, then we could move next door to Donna Reed.
Walter Mosley
#48. I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.
Walter Mosley
#49. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
#50. A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.
Walter Mosley
#51. I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.
Walter Mosley
#52. The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.
Walter Mosley
#53. I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.
Walter Mosley
#54. Everyday we have a high calling that we need to fulfill and everyday we can do it whether it's just to smile at somebody we little know.
Lacey Sturm
#55. As far as the 'Mad Men' thing, I love 'Mad Men.' It's one of my favorite shows; I think it's an amazing series.
Michael Mosley
#56. There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
#57. He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.
Walter Mosley
#58. Our collective freedom ... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.
Walter Mosley
#59. My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
Walter Mosley
#60. Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.
Walter Mosley
#61. He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.
Walter Mosley
#62. We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.
Walter Mosley
#63. all those days I was walkin' on the streets, I kept thinkin' how special you got to be to get born.
Walter Mosley
#64. I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.
Walter Mosley
#65. Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.
Walter Mosley
#66. Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.
It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.
Walter Mosley
#67. Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is.
Walter Mosley
#68. When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.
Walter Mosley
#69. Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.
Walter Mosley
#70. Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
Walter Mosley
#72. Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
Walter Mosley
#73. The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
Walter Mosley
#74. Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.
Oswald Mosley
#75. The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
Walter Mosley
#76. I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.
Walter Mosley
#77. I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on, but they're explorers.
Walter Mosley
#78. I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars.
Walter Mosley
#79. I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.
Walter Mosley
#80. You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul.
Lacey Mosley
#81. My heart was beating like it was being played by a one-armed Japanese Ondekoza drummer pounding slowly on his seven-hundred-pound drum with a caveman's club at twilight.
Walter Mosley
#82. The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars.
Walter Mosley
#83. They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign.
Walter Mosley
#84. Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
Walter Mosley
#85. That's how powerful you are, girl ... You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.
Walter Mosley
#86. All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
Walter Mosley
#87. I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.
Walter Mosley
#88. After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
Nicholas Mosley
#89. At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Walter Mosley
#90. Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three
Walter Mosley
#91. 'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.
Michael Mosley
#92. HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
Walter Mosley
#93. Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
Walter Mosley
#95. Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.
Oswald Mosley
#96. She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.
Stephen Mosley
#97. I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
Walter Mosley
#98. The fact that we once knew each other in Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, and that we were both still alive and ambulatory, was a miracle in itself. Where we came from he's dead was as common a phrase as he's sick or he's saved. People died in our world with appalling regularity.
Walter Mosley
#99. I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman in me made love to Rosetta Jeanette Lawson in the guise of a man.
Walter Mosley
#100. This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.
Walter Mosley
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