Willie Morris Quotes

#1. Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

Arlen Specter

#2. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Lea DeLaria

#3. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Willie Morris

#5. I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

Willie Morris

#6. Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

Walton Goggins

#7. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.

Enid Bagnold

#8. I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Jesse Ventura

#9. chased by the shadows of clouds.

John Connolly

#10. I do not take commands from someone with no character or appreciative mindset.

Mohith Agadi

#11. South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

Hortense Powdermaker

#12. I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Willie Morris

#14. When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

Willie Morris

#15. You are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you'll look back in twenty years and howl.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

Willie Morris

#17. My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

David Suzuki

#18. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

Gloria Steinem

#19. As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

Willie Morris

#20. People such as Blur's Alex James make too much of a fuss about champagne, just because it pops and it's fizzy and golden. Big deal. Rice Krispies do exactly the same

Frankie Poullain