Christopher Morley Quotes
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
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We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
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Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.
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I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.
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...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.
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Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?