Morgan Freeman Quotes

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

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• To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Together

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Important
  • Today
  • Government

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • May
  • Character

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Booked

• But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Bother

• I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Style
  • Flow

• The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • Parents
  • Community

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Funny

• Women today are the biggest pigs today in history. They are just the dirtiest, nastiest slobs. I don't know how old your chick is, but the truth of the matter is they've become the aggressors. You know? They're upset if you're not balls deep in them by half way through the first date! They think you don't like them.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Women
  • History
  • First Date

• In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Men
  • Sex

• Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

  

  Alphonsus Rodriguez
  • Opportunity
  • Practice
  • Mortify

• If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Opportunity
  • Inspiration
  • Arrive

• I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Opportunity
  • Lucky