Errol Morris Quotes

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

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• Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Genius
  • Foundation
  • Human Life

• The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Environment
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Understanding
  • Hearts
  • Crucified

• Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Be Happy

• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Resolutions

• The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Useless
  • United Nations
  • Harmful

• Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.

  

  Ali Larijani
  • Dialogue
  • European
  • Resume

• Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

  

  A. J. Jacobs

• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

  

  William Masters
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Serious

• The good is the enemy of the best.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Enemy

• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Light
  • Childhood
  • Scandinavia

• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Choice

• The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting for their lives--for the one life that would emerge from this elegant battle. . . . For the moment the two of them were evenly matched, arm against arm. Michael prayed that it would never stop, that there would always be this moment of utter mastery, beautiful and rare, and no conclusion ever be reached.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Fighting
  • Battle
  • Testing

• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Always
  • Human

• A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Michael Jackson
  • Impersonator

• Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.

  

  Gilberto Gil
  • Strong
  • Influence
  • Jazz

• Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Emerge
  • Occur
  • Phone Call