Errol Morris Quotes

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

Errol Morris

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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Design

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart

• My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Mother

• I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • World
  • Long
  • Experience

• I think Beyonce always looks great.

  

  Lily James
  • Great

• Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

  

  Martin Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Fate
  • Mysterious

• I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Food

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Strong

• Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Up
  • Political

• I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

  

  Bryan White
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Together
  • Yoga

• What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Men
  • Ivory
  • Primitive Man

• At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Stars
  • Valley
  • Reflections

• We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Why
  • Help
  • Annoying

• Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Consider
  • Wondered
  • Impatience

• I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Excuses
  • Wondered
  • Explanations