Richard K. Morgan Quotes

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Wonderful
  • Honesty

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Evil

• Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Think
  • Day
  • Always

• When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Nature
  • You
  • Child

• They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writer
  • Fact
  • Painter

• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Great
  • Healing

• Chaos can be incredibly creative.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Chaos

• The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Confidence

• I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

  

  Douglas Wood

• A sprinter is never satisfied; otherwise, he is not a sprinter.

  

  Francois Pervis

• She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Forgotten

• My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

  

  Bill Toomey

• Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Writing
  • Made
  • Decades