Gary Saul Morson Quotes
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Gary Saul Morson
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee
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
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
Ian Doescher
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
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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
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
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
M. C. Escher
Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.
Warren Farrell
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
Kirk Douglas
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
Neil Innes
One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.
Ricky Jay
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
Randy Neugebauer
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.
H. G. Wells
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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
