William Morris Quotes

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Open

• I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Need
  • Criminal
  • Hunt

• I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Government

• Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Stop
  • Blood

• I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.

  

  Adria Arjona
  • Good
  • Job
  • True

• At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

  

  Leon Askin
  • Life
  • City

• In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Career

• Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup, and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.

  

  Jillionaire
  • History
  • Future
  • Culture

• When somebody throws something out the car window, honk at them, but don't give them the finger. We've got to temper our negative feelings about people who desecrate the environment.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Environment
  • Car

• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Thinking
  • Practice

• When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Player

• There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

  

  Keala Settle
  • People
  • Career
  • Hand

• As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Good

• It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'

  

  Alex Graves
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

  

  Clea Duvall
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Success
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Good
  • Words
  • Dog

• Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Mean
  • Animal

• The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Liberty
  • Individual
  • Rights

• If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

  

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