Chris Morris Quotes

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

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• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Strong

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Woman

• I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Respect
  • Tennis
  • Through

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Bad
  • Guys
  • Among

• Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Understanding
  • Preparation
  • Journalism

• When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Proud
  • Win
  • Friendship

• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • You
  • Insults

• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Going
  • Out
  • Beaten

• Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • God
  • Influence

• We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Believe
  • True
  • Nature

• 'And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. '

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May
  • Words
  • Scripture

• The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Words

• A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

  

  Abraham Pais

• The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds, The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Done

• As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Audience

• in darkness and in hedges

  

  W. D. Snodgrass
  • Darkness
  • Loneliness
  • Tone

• In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Honor
  • Chinese
  • Civilization

• What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.

  

  William Matthews
  • Language
  • Reflection
  • Jokes

• The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

  

  Chris Morris