Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

I don't perform. Seals perform.

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• What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Done
  • Why
  • Today

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• I think I'm going to be around awhile.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • Going
  • Awhile

• People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Sex
  • Symbol
  • Zombie

• In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Business
  • Succeed

• The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Problems
  • Results
  • Possible

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Something
  • My Own
  • Anxious

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Power
  • Man
  • Plan

• Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Cruelty
  • Contagious

• If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Business

• Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Intelligent

• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Environment
  • Military

• I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Model

• My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Democracy
  • Absolutist
  • Tyranny's Incubation

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• I don't perform. Seals perform.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths