Errol Morris Quotes

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Errol Morris

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• Photographs
• Misconception

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• I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Time
  • Important
  • Hope

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Book
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • Children
  • Respect

• The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Church

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Control

• Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Guilty

• Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • God
  • Perfect

• The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Resources
  • Abundant

• Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Quality

• The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Chance
  • Photographs