Edmund Morris Quotes

Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.

Edmund Morris

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• I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Love
  • Stop
  • Wish

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Child
  • Wood
  • Carpenter

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Man
  • Know
  • Temptation

• But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Care
  • Better

• There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Past
  • Beginning

• Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great
  • Live
  • Power

• My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Power
  • Passion

• Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Different
  • America

• I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Trying

• I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

  

  James Herbert

• The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • People

• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Reading

• I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Air
  • Waiting
  • Spirit

• Mortality defines the human condition.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust

• Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Reading
  • Therapy
  • Imaginative