Brian Morton Quotes

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Long
  • Action

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Me
  • College
  • Luxury

• There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Free
  • Logic
  • Illusion

• It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Money
  • Me
  • Judge

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Joke
  • TV Series

• Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Parents

• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Successful

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Growth

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'

  

  Emily Meade
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Mets
  • Homosexual

• There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • America
  • Interest

• I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Live
  • Road

• You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.

  

  Brian Morton
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