Christopher Morley Quotes

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

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• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Unique
  • Idea
  • Original

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Clothes
  • Take
  • Off

• Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Education
  • Christian
  • Beginning

• Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Link

• I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Joy
  • Distress

• I'm a proud Welshman.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Proud

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Like
  • Place
  • Shopping

• I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • See
  • Company
  • Fast

• I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Know
  • Down

• I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Profession
  • Homebody

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Artist

• Social satire has been around since people have been around.

  

  David Walliams
  • People

• What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

  

  David Shields
  • Why
  • Today
  • Style

• In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • People
  • War
  • Strong

• Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly-it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Up
  • Country
  • Future

• There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Together
  • Broken

• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

  

  Christopher Morley