Christopher Morley Quotes

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Tiger
  • Magnificent

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Why
  • Simple

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Spanish

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Reality
  • Mad

• I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Believe

• When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Band

• I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Genetic

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Water
  • Sky
  • Clouds