Brian Morton Quotes

And we were driving there with Florence and Stella. I was complaining about having to go all the way up to Connecticut, and you said, ‘Look at it this way: we have two obligations to our old friends. We have to go to their weddings and we have to go to their funerals. With George, we’re halfway home.

Brian Morton

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Help

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fire

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Children
  • Society
  • Idea

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• For me, I always try to make it to the final.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Always
  • Things
  • Manager

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Diversity
  • Loss
  • Forgive

• China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

  

  Barbara Park
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Design
  • Golf

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

  

  Usher
  • Man
  • Attention
  • Best

• Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sorry

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Beautiful
  • Farewell

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

  

  Andre Benjamin

• And we were driving there with Florence and Stella. I was complaining about having to go all the way up to Connecticut, and you said, ‘Look at it this way: we have two obligations to our old friends. We have to go to their weddings and we have to go to their funerals. With George, we’re halfway home.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Friends
  • Obligations
  • Weddings