Christopher Morley Quotes
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
Rachel Kushner -
I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
Naomi Campbell -
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust -
My son's a West Point cadet.
Victor Mitchell -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
Wendy Davis -
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
Aaron Rodgers -
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
Wanda Sykes -
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice -
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw -
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
J. B. Priestley -
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
Valentina Tereshkova -
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud -
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.
Edie Falco
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Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
David Douglass -
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
Walker Evans -
I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
Van Morrison -
True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
Irving Babbitt -
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
James Surowiecki -
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley