William Morris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
-
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
-
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
-
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
-
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
-
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
-
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
-
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
-
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
-
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
-
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
-
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
-
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
-
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
-
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
-
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
-
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
-
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
-
Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
-
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
-
I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
-
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
