Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

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• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Makeup
  • Saws

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Affinity

• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Relationship
  • Needs
  • Stills

• I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

  

  Weegee
  • City
  • Lying
  • Cities

• The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Up
  • Death
  • Road

• I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Team
  • Response
  • FDA

• Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Ends

• I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Sports
  • Dramas
  • Newscasts

• If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Rich
  • Whip

• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Goal

• I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Acting
  • Knows
  • Should

• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  

  Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Knows
  • More
  • Less

• Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

  

  Michael Moorcock
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