Top 100 Quotes About Morris
#1. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
Janet Morris
#2. 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
#3. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
William Morris
#8. Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.
Janet Morris
#9. I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.
Morris L. West
#10. 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
#11. It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
Janet Morris
#12. In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
Kenneth Noland
#13. No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
William Morris
#14. Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.
Linda Morris
#15. As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
Mark Morris
#16. 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
#17. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.
Dick Morris
#19. My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Errol Morris
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834
William Morris
#27. 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
#28. Don't die wondering "What if I could have done that..."
Die, saying "I remember when I did...
John R. Morris
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.
Janet Morris
#32. I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
Errol Morris
#33. People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.
Lamorne Morris
#34. These skill-sets usually take time to develop so the
Matt Morris
#35. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.
Morris Chestnut
#36. In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
Morris West
#37. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Errol Morris
#38. But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.
Marc Morris
#39. Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
Janet Morris
#40. Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous
interconnecting of miracle,
but we don't always realise it.
Paul Morris Segal
#41. Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
Richard Morris
#42. your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?
Matt Morris
#43. So if it resonates with fans - and that's always the bottom line, fans have the final say - then I'm sure we'll see more of it. I'd be honored to do it. I saw the first one today, and I cracked up. I literally laughed out loud. I saw how the sausage was made, and I still laughed.
Phil Morris
#44. Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."
Edwin Morris
#46. I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.
Keith Morris
#47. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#48. I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
Errol Morris
#49. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
Edmund Morris
#50. The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.
Dick Morris
#51. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
#52. Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time ...
Janet Morris
#54. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
Simon Conway Morris
#55. Morris Halle was already working on a generative phonology of Russian in the 1950s, and we also worked together on the generative phonology of English, at first jointly with Fred Lukoff.
Noam Chomsky
#56. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
Janet Morris
#57. The bottom line is simple: It's not about where you sit on Sunday but how you live on Monday.
Dwayne Morris
#58. The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.
William Morris
#59. More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.
Dick Morris
#60. The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
William Morris
#61. Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Dave Morris
#62. By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
Estelle Morris
#63. I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
Estelle Morris
#64. The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.
Henry M. Morris
#65. If you like ice cream, why stop at one scoop? Have two, have three. Too much is never enough.
Morris Lapidus
#66. There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
Richard Morris
#67. Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Dick Morris
#68. Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
#69. You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.
Morris Dees
#70. Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
Richard Morris
#73. Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.
Gary Morris
#74. The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.
Jan Morris
#75. I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris
#76. The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.
Henry M. Morris
#77. Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
Morris Chestnut
#78. I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.
Morris Chestnut
#79. In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.
Dick Morris
#80. To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.
Janet Morris
#81. I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.
Betty White
#82. 'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
Mark Morris
#83. The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).
Dick Morris
#84. 'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.
Wesley Morris
#85. Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.
Janet Morris
#86. [Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
Jan Morris
#87. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
Errol Morris
#88. If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#89. As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.
Jan Morris
#90. People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they're not trying to be.
Lewis Morris
#91. O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
William Morris
#92. Norway ... looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe ... It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.
Edmund Morris
#93. It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
Morris Hite
#94. Self-change can only come after self-understanding.
Rob R. Morris
#95. Your generation was promised a decent husband and maybe a job on the side. Mine," I said with some nostalgia and a hint of disappointment, "mine was promised jet packs.
Holly Morris
#96. I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
Morris Gleitzman
#97. Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
Dave Morris
#98. So, Orion Dude, you're an alien?" Stu said, finding it all very funny now.
"Hmm. If you're coming to my planet, Stu, actually you're the alien! As for Titan... we're all aliens," Orion replied.
Ruth Watson-Morris
#99. I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.
Gary Morris
#100. Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.
Morris Dees
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