Gary Saul Morson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
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I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
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So that was somewhat of a transition coming in, but it's something that has allowed us to grow as a team and an offense.
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
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If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
