Christopher Morley Quotes

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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• The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Time
  • Film
  • Goal

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • World
  • Surprise

• The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • World
  • Business
  • Problem

• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

  

  Hal David
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Everyone

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• 'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Imagination

• I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • House
  • Play

• I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Feelings

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Couple

• My mother was 14 when she was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. My mother’s alive and well, but only because of America. Without America’s military, the world would be in deep… fill-in-the-blank. I’m forever grateful for that.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • World
  • She
  • America

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • May
  • Petty

• Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • Growing

• If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

  

  Colum McCann

• The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Grow
  • Rebirth
  • National Socialist

• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Real
  • Done
  • Respect

• The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Small
  • Consistency

• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Chinese
  • Writer
  • Soviet

• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Hurt

• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  

  Christopher Morley