Top 100 Quotes About Morley
#1. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
Robert Giroux
#2. He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
David Nicholls
#3. And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about
it.
You had to save what you could.
Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to
try.
Rachel Caine
#4. There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.
Lowell Bergman
#5. There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Jack Vance
#6. Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
Rex Harrison
#7. The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common plague of humanity. It is:
The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes.
Alfred Korzybski
#8. Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.
David Amram
#9. What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that.
"Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?
Rachel Caine
#10. I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.
Jimmy Armfield
#11. [Dust]
Agatha Morley
all her life
grumbled at dust
like a good wife
...
Six feet under
the earth she lies
with dust at her feet
and dust in her eyes.
Sydney King Russell
#12. Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.
David Nicholls
#13. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
Christopher Morley
#14. That's the kind of thing that will wake you up in the middle of the night. I don't want to have a night with any middle
Christopher Morley
#15. So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.
Morley
#16. From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
Karen Morley
#17. When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Christopher Morley
#18. Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
Christopher Morley
#19. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
Christopher Morley
#20. Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.
Christopher Morley
#21. Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Morley Safer
#23. America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
Christopher Morley
#24. I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.
Morley Safer
#25. A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley
#26. The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
Christopher Morley
#27. I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
Morley Safer
#29. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Christopher Morley
#30. In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley
#31. I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
Morley Safer
#32. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system
Elliot Morley
#33. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley
#34. I love you because we hate the same stuff
Morley
#35. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
Pat Morley
#36. What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
Morley Safer
#37. Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer
#38. I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
Morley Safer
#39. The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
Robert Morley
#40. Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
Christopher Morley
#41. In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
Morley Safer
#43. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley
#44. A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.
Christopher Morley
#45. Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
Bobby Morley
#47. All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.
William Morley Punshon
#48. Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
#49. There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
William Morley Punshon
#50. It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
Morley Safer
#51. I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
Morley Safer
#52. There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.
Morley Callaghan
#54. I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
Morley Safer
#55. Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.
Christopher Morley
#56. Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.
Felix Morley
#57. His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.
Morley Callaghan
#58. The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.
Morley
#59. Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.
Adrian Morley
#60. Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Christopher Morley
#61. Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
William Morley Punshon
#62. We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley
#63. There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
Christopher Morley
#64. They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
Christopher Morley
#66. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley
#67. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
David Nicholls
#68. Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Morley Safer
#69. It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
Karen Morley
#70. We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
Christopher Morley
#71. plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.
David Morley
#72. The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.
Morley
#73. I wish there could be an international peace
conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own
conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no
small measure on them and on the librarians.
Christopher Morley
#74. [The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.
Morley Safer
#75. Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
Christopher Morley
#76. Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn't that high enough mission for a man?
Christopher Morley
#77. When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
Morley Safer
#78. McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
Morley Safer
#79. I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
Morley Callaghan
#81. The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.
Malcolm Morley
#82. Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.
Christopher Morley
#83. Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley
#84. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
#85. Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories.
Morley, Christopher
#87. If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.
Robert Morley
#88. Morning has animated something in me, too, some dormant thing that for years has known only how to sit and wait. Get a move on, it says. Don't let the day get away.
Isla Morley
#89. If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.
Morley Safer
#90. I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
Karen Morley
#91. All change begins with someone having a thought.
Paul Morley
#92. Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
Christopher Morley
#93. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
#94. When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
Morley Safer
#95. Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
Christopher Morley
#96. The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.
Felix Morley
#97. What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people.
Christopher Morley
#98. In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.
Morley
#99. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
#100. Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
Christopher Morley
