Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'

Morrissey The Smiths

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• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

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• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

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• In all of our efforts, we must be mindful of competitive pressures at home and abroad. Manufacturers are no longer simply competing within our borders. We share the marketplace with countries like China where the average manufacturing worker earns 61 cents an hour.

  

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• So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths