Gary Saul Morson Quotes

Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.

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• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Long
  • Day
  • Radio

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Nothing

• When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Got
  • Gamer
  • Amazement

• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Political

• I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Man
  • Energy
  • Find

• My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Father
  • Potential
  • Philanthropic

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• You only get one shot at a second chance.

  

  Michael Vick
  • Chance
  • Second

• I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

  

  Ian McLeod
  • People
  • Opportunity

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Father
  • Light
  • Anchor

• Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.

  

  Gary Saul Morson
  • Opportunity
  • Authorship
  • Anthology