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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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
