Richard K. Morgan Quotes

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Richard K. Morgan

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• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Game
  • Color

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Genius

• Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Drunk

• I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Myself
  • Move
  • Push

• That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Help
  • Team
  • Football

• Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Littles
  • Rage
  • Fascism

• To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Soul
  • Small
  • Yoga

• I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Artist

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Exercise

• There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

  

  Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda
  • World
  • Enough

• If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Waiting
  • Sex
  • Parent

• Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

  

  David Cobley
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Humans
  • Wonderful
  • Injustice