William Morris Quotes

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

William Morris

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Game
  • Football
  • Youth

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Born
  • Politician
  • Bachelor

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Education
  • Alone

• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Me
  • Human
  • Passions

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Important
  • Help
  • Guy

• If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Player
  • Garden
  • Dvds

• Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Cancer
  • Rejection

• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Color

• Many black men leave because they are financially responsible-not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Black

• If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Hungry