George Pope Morris Quotes

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

George Pope Morris

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Lake
  • Improve

• It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • City
  • Deep

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Day
  • Car

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

  

  Carla Korbes
  • She
  • Know
  • Running

• I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Lake

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Game
  • Change
  • End

• Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Long
  • Home
  • Hockey

• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Same
  • Lake

• What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • City
  • Tea
  • Lake

• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Guy
  • Sexy
  • Hockey

• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wind
  • Chicago
  • Lake

• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  

  Leah Ward Sears
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Up
  • Player
  • Couple

• Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Trying
  • Technology

• Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Lake
  • Willow
  • Drooped