Christopher Morley Quotes

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Christopher Morley

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Save

• Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Live
  • Money
  • She

• I became a dancer late and an actor late.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Actor
  • Late
  • Dancer

• America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • America
  • Political
  • More

• When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Man
  • New York

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Perspective
  • Fame

• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Game
  • Team
  • Lost

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • School
  • Drama
  • Behind

• I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Democracy
  • Values
  • Liberty

• Boxing is what pays my bills.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Bills
  • Pays

• Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • School
  • Working
  • Back

• Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Violence

• It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Dream

• For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Live

• The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Scary

• I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

  

  Arthur Frommer
  • Culture
  • City
  • Interested

• Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Improvement
  • Acceptance

• Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

  

  Ridley Scott
  • Appears
  • Runner
  • Essentially

• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

  

  Christopher Morley