George Pope Morris Quotes

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Faces

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Person
  • Religion
  • Human

• No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Evil
  • Choices
  • Born

• There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Choice

• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mind
  • Human

• People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • New

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Community
  • Failure
  • Service

• These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• At that stage my heart ruled my head'.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Heart

• We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Peace

• That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

  

  Max Muller
  • God
  • Home
  • Soul

• I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Thinking
  • Actress

• The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

  

  Marc Forster
  • People
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?

  

  Delia Ephron
  • God
  • Mistake
  • Mirror

• When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Younger

• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  

  George Pope Morris
  • Desire
  • Learned
  • Labor