Mary Manin Morrissey Quotes

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

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• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Done
  • Party

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
  • In The Past

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Thought
  • Cold
  • Stone

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Means
  • Alas

• I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Matter
  • Him
  • Ahead

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Relieved

• I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Country
  • Education
  • Regret

• after the release of Black:

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Black

• I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.

  

  Bob Dylan

• Ooo remember, baby, how you made me feel just like a king?Ah, I've been waitingI'm ready for you to start doin' the thingsSo I'll know you're mine.You're so fine, so petite, oh candy sweet.Ah, I've been waiting.Come here, baby, get to this.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Remember
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time

• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  

  Aesop

• In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Work
  • Great
  • Regret

• When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London seeing a lot of theater. That's where I saw the performance that made me want to act: Vanessa Redgrave doing 'A Touch of the Poet.'

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Up
  • Think
  • Game

• Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

  

  Mary Manin Morrissey