Edward P. Morgan Quotes

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Edward P. Morgan

• Fear
• Explore
• Examine
• Provocation

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Child

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Expectations

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Past
  • Struggle

• I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Family

• We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

  

  Bernice King
  • Violence

• It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Different
  • Father
  • Boy

• If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Time
  • God

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • America
  • Fear

• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

  

  Edward P. Morgan
  • Fear
  • Explore
  • Examine