Mr Morris Quotes

#1. I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

Kirstie Alley

#2. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.

Bram Stoker

#3. My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Errol Morris

#4. Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.

Errol Morris

#5. Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Morris West

#6. I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris

#7. I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.

Lamorne Morris

#8. I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Robert Morris

#9. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

Dick Morris

#10. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

Janet Morris

#11. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834

William Morris

#12. I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

Morris Gleitzman

#13. Don't die wondering "What if I could have done that..."

Die, saying "I remember when I did...

John R. Morris

#14. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Janet Morris

#15. Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

Morris Hite

#16. If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

Janet Morris

#17. I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

Errol Morris

#18. People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

Lamorne Morris

#19. Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!

Edmund Morris

#20. I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Morris L. West

#21. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

Janet Morris

#22. I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Heather Morris

#23. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#24. The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

Simon Conway Morris

#25. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Morris Graves

#26. What is it that angers us? ... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

Errol Morris

#27. Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William Morris

#28. Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

Janet Morris

#29. Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

Errol Morris

#30. You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I like mature niggas." "I'm not a nigga." "What are you?" "An African American." "Well I don't like African Americans. I like niggas.

Vincent Morris

#31. It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

Janet Morris

#32. In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

#33. No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

William Morris

#34. Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.

Linda Morris

#35. As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

Mark Morris

#36. It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest ...

Jan Morris