Errol Morris Quotes

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

Errol Morris

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• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Great
  • Women
  • Nature

• I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Follow
  • Anywhere
  • Ben

• The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Strong

• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Judge
  • Cold

• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Book

• The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World

• We Are All in the Same Boat.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Boat

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Children

• I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • High
  • Shoes

• I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Wish
  • Dune

• I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Beach
  • Gym
  • Bike

• I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.

  

  James Gray
  • Children

• I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • People
  • She
  • Movie

• The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Law
  • Tyranny
  • Protects

• Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.

  

  Daniel Amen
  • Sleep
  • Causes
  • Function

• My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • People
  • Lost
  • Bible

• Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Training
  • Discipline
  • Meditation

• Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Pantomime

• All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Language