Jennifer Morrison Quotes

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

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• This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Party
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• There's no formula.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Formula

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Like
  • Pull
  • Trigger

• If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Taken

• Tiggers don't like honey.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Like
  • Honey

• I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Church
  • Risk
  • Open

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

  

  Livy
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Humble

• Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Life
  • Together

• I'm a pretty basic surfer.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty

• I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

  

  Billy Childish
  • Art
  • Freedom
  • Sick

• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Jim Ramstad
  • People
  • Help
  • Compassion

• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Hair

• Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • School
  • Moments
  • Moving

• You've got to introduce people to things in a way they're going to enjoy.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • People

• The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

  

  Jennifer Morrison