Edmund Morris Quotes

A stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.

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• When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • New York
  • Hug

• The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Time
  • Science
  • Purpose

• What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Collect
  • Stamps
  • Doubles

• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Knowledge
  • Progress
  • Human

• You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Faith

• If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

  

  Dale Carnegie

• And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Baby

• What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Power
  • Law
  • Care

• Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

  

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Writers
  • Foods
  • Rice Krispies

• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • People
  • Family
  • Hurt

• I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Time
  • Music
  • Feeling

• The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Color
  • Emmys

• Each man believes only his experience.

  

  Empedocles
  • Experience
  • Believes

• Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Purpose
  • Goal
  • Destiny

• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Feeling
  • Opinion
  • Stand

• For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Responsibility
  • Certain
  • Consequence

• Boredom is a luxury good.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Good
  • Luxury
  • Boredom

• A stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Steps
  • White House
  • Coat