Abi Morgan Quotes

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Home
  • Only
  • Typical

• The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • May
  • Job

• I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

  

  Sally Field
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • Care

• In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Mexico

• Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Power
  • Action
  • Moral

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Society

• The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Desire

• The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Night

• I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.

  

  Clive James
  • Long
  • Vacation

• It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

  

  Ashleigh Murray

• What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American
  • Joy
  • River

• I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Power
  • Silence
  • Thinkers

• It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Goal
  • Lead
  • Steps

• Colombia is a different country today. The state is now present in every single corner, the drug lords are in jail or dead. So we have the means to guarantee the security of FARC politicians.

  

  Juan Manuel Santos
  • Security
  • Politicians
  • Guarantee

• Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our society is culminated, dumbed-down and mass produced, there is a shining jewel in the rise of the indy record stores. Going to a record shop for me is like a little treasure hunt no one can take you on but yourself. It's fun to look around and see the other shoppers too...totally entrenched in their own adventure, anticipating the reward of heart wrenching, soul filling, joy making music that might just be a bin or a flip away.

  

  Elizabeth Cook
  • Music
  • Society
  • Adventure

• The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Change
  • Church
  • Rock

• I'm a cheap date.

  

  Abi Morgan