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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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman-he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
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Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?