Daryl Morey Quotes

I lead verbally, not by example.

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Succeed

• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Political
  • Expressing
  • Darling

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Best

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Learning
  • Imagination
  • Walk

• There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Reading

• When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Culture
  • Architecture
  • Civilization

• Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Cream

• The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Perfect
  • Fashion
  • Style

• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Roles

• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Pain

• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Band

• I lead verbally, not by example.

  

  Daryl Morey
  • Example