Quotes About Morris

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

Kenneth Noland

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There was so much unrecognized novelty in the collection that at one point18 upon opening a new drawer Conway Morris famously was heard to mutter, 'Oh fuck, not another phylum.' The

Bill Bryson

#5. In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris

George F. Will

#6. The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

Jessica Livingston

#7. Morris Berman has pointed out that museums characteristically present hard things, such as axes and spears, as evidence of early culture. But culture very likely begins with baskets made of reeds that are "soft" and hold emptiness.

Robert Bly

#8. After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

William J. Clinton

#9. Lorris ? As in Logan and Morris ? They fucking Brangelina'd themselves?

Elle Kennedy

#10. At this point, I will make like Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell and call a time out...

Camille Perri

#11. I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

Paul Oakenfold

#12. I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. When you find nothing, Morris said, it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.
Is that a Zen thing? Eve questioned.
If not, it should be.

J.D. Robb

#14. They carried sticks and wore white clothes with bells on them, to stop them creeping up on people. No one likes an unexpected Morris dancer.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

David Geffen

#16. I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.

Simon Conway Morris

#17. You've got ten fingers,' said Morris. 'Why not stick them in ten pies?

Michael Frayn

#18. The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

Saul Bellow

#19. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

Julian Fellowes

#20. The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to succeed of one man and the burgeoning market for middle-class status symbols. The car first appeared as a souped-up Morris Oxford in 1923 when it won the Land's End Rally.

Nick Davies

#21. Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes.

Bill Bryson

#22. Whats the name you Poms have for that thing where you jump up and down and hit each other with sticks?"
"Sex?"
"Gardening?"
He snapped his fingers. "Morris dancing.

Alexis Hall

#23. I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

Teri Garr

#24. The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country?

Stephen King

#25. Morris liked to share he books with others. Sometimes it was a favorite that everyone loved, and other times he found a lonely little volume whose tale was seldom told.
"Everyone's story matters," said Morris. And all the books agreed.

William Joyce

#26. Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Max Beerbohm

#27. It's a prissy, overdecorated P238 SIG Sauer, red and black, with gold-inlaid flowers scrolling down the barrel. Morris drops the clip and sees it's full. There's even one in the pipe. He puts the clip back in and lays the gun on the desk - something else to take along.

Stephen King

#28. Is there a sense in which you miss being behind a locked door?" Ma turns to Morris. "Is she allowed to ask me such stupid questions?" The

Emma Donoghue

#29. The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

Simon Conway Morris

#30. People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Peter Baynham

#31. Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

Gaines Adams

#32. Taylor Elizabeth Morris, will you do me the honor of being mine forever?

Kelly Elliott

#33. Ceremony-the wine of human existence - Morris R. Cohen

Barbara Jonas

#34. We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however.

Ernie Wise

#35. Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

Glynn Turman

#36. Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

Herb Kelleher

#37. If Morris and his contemporaries were possessed by the medieval Christian imagination and the ancient sagas, the moderns looked further back to the ancient world, and rewrote the Greek myths and legends to suit their own ideas about society and history.

A.S. Byatt

#38. Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping.
"What'choo do that for!" Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off before Morris had pulled this move.

Edward Lee

#39. I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.

Tia Mowry

#40. Ruth, if you don't want to go to law school, you have the best reason in the world and no one would think less of you," Morris said. "But if you really want to go to law school, you will stop feeling sorry for yourself. You will find a way.

Irin Carmon

#41. We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Eric Morecambe

#42. a monster. Morris was exposed and sitting smack in her path. No one really

Kathy Reichs

#43. I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Denzel Washington

#44. The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Johnny Weissmuller

#45. As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and William Morris was never interested - or any studio, either - in your company or as an actor, and then 'God's Not Dead' happens, and now everyone calls you.

David A.R. White

#46. Yes, sir, Hicks said. He was a small young man, very officious, who would never contradict a superior. If Morris claimed the clouds were made of cheese Hicks would just stand to attention, twitch his nose, and swear blind he could smell Cheddar.

Bernard Cornwell

#47. Washington replied, "I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance." "He knows everything, sir," Morris replied. "To a mind like his nothing comes amiss.

Ron Chernow

#48. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

Maria Thayer

#49. 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

#50. I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

Harry Markowitz

#51. 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

#52. Morris's face is melting. He shrieks and begins hugging the blazing, dissolving remnants of Rothstein's work to his burning chest.

Stephen King

#53. Do you know if there's a supermarket in this mall?" The voice is young. And white. Morris discovers he can breathe again. "Safeway," he says, without turning. He has no idea if there's a supermarket in the mall or not. "Oh. Okay. Thanks.

Stephen King

#54. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.

Katie Graykowski

#55. ...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.

Ewan Clayton

#56. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

Irwin Winkler

#57. The point is," Sid Morris says. "This. Now. Paint on your brush, wind at your back, my crappy studio. This is the only certainty. Here: your sensations; your body existing for its moment in time. Everything else is crap.

Kate Walbert

#58. Dr. Morris believes, and I strongly agree, that couples are most likely to bond securely when they have not rushed the dating experience. Time is the critical ingredient.

James C. Dobson

#59. Meanwhile, Morris settled into his seat with his signature slouch, neither knowing nor caring where I was taking him. Like destinations, in general, were vastly overrated. And maybe they were. As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.

Sarah Dessen

#60. My heart was very heavy. There was Boughton sitting in his Morris chair staring at nothing. Glory told me the only words he had said all day were "Jesus never had to be old.

Marilynne Robinson

#61. Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris

Rene Descartes

#62. Healing must always seek to give voice to suffering, and the greater the range of words and meanings we have at our disposal, the clearer the voice becomes.
Iona Heath in BMJ 2000;320:125 ( 8 January) Review of the book Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David Morris

Iona Heath

#63. Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself? ... And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus

Morris Cerullo

#64. In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Sydney Brenner

#65. My Morris, bless his heavy-hung manhood, was a muscular man too."
Bloody hell, is she talking about her dead husband's manly parts? His tadger?

Vonnie Davis

#66. Ben Morris is fucking Switzerland

K.A. Tucker

#67. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.

Menna Van Praag

#68. Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Adrian McKinty

#69. Conjurer: Oh, I don't mind anyone knowing everything, Miss Carleon. There is something that is much more important than knowing how a thing is done.
Morris: And what's that?
Conjurer: Knowing how to do it.

G.K. Chesterton

#70. I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.

J.D. Robb

#71. I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

DJ Khaled

#72. Beauty! Sid Morris said, addressing the dirty windows that looked out to the alley where, on certain Thursdays, the smell up from the Chinese restaurant across the street reached a point you could almost taste. Beauty! he said.

Kate Walbert

#73. It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

Sarah Addison Allen

#74. Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.

William Joyce

#75. There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.

William Morris

#76. I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic.

Robert Webb

#77. I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

Rowan Atkinson

#78. My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!

Zendaya

#79. Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

David Lodge

#80. Jason had attended debutante balls. Knew the drill. My crew would have to conduct research on YouTube. Jason was popular on the cotillion scene. My guys weren't even on the radar. Asking Jason would get Whitney off my back. Inviting only Morris Island boys might plummet her into a depression.

Kathy Reichs

#81. When the teachings of men conflict with the Word of God, it would be wise to go with God. -Henry M. Morris Ph.D.

Amy Case

#82. Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle

Billy Packer

#83. The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!

Terry Pratchett

#84. Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Thomas Jefferson

#85. If I had a brontosaurus, I would name him Horace or Morris. But if suddenly one day he had A lot of little brontosauri- I would change his name to Laurie.

Shel Silverstein

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

Janet Morris

#87. 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

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

Morris Raphael Cohen

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

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

William Morris

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

Janet Morris

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

Morris L. West

#95. 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

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

Janet Morris

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

William Morris

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

Linda Morris

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

Mark Morris

#100. 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