Desmond Morris Quotes

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

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• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Best
  • Quality

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Room
  • Put
  • Item

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Work
  • Live
  • Day

• The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • World
  • Culture

• Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Revolution

• Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Party
  • Water

• I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. I'm not sure it's even possible.

  

  Lori Foster

• I tap dance.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Dance

• I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

  

  Joe Russo
  • People
  • Ocean

• I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun All covered with flowers still having your fun

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Fun
  • Sun
  • Hero

• When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Truth
  • Broken
  • All Things

• O, Woman! in our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Light
  • Pain
  • Angel

• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • God
  • Fear
  • Die

• I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

  

  Desmond Morris
  • Angel