William De Morgan Quotes

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

William De Morgan

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• Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • House
  • Play
  • Reggae

• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Live
  • Walking
  • Hill

• Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Walking
  • Down
  • Portrait

• I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Waiting
  • Call
  • Final

• Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • May
  • Guy

• Say my shoe game nuts so I call em cashews Every other city it's another Nicki tattoo

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Game
  • City
  • Cities

• But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Small

• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Jump
  • Castle
  • Ketchup

• I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Week

• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Person
  • Villain
  • Cares

• I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Desire
  • Selfish

• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Desire

• Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • People
  • Time

• Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

  

  P. D. James
  • Reading

• The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

  

  William Osler
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Science

• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Wine
  • Welfare
  • Destined

• Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Great
  • Risk
  • Ghost

• I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Gone
  • Ghost
  • Instance

• When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Deep

• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Judgment
  • Degrees

• A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

  

  William De Morgan
  • Ghost
  • Fairs
  • Squares