Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

TF: At which point did you stop being celibate, why and who with? M: I don't see how anyone would benefit from seeing that kind of information in print. Least of all me.

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• I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • God
  • Friends

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Know
  • Trump

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Soul
  • Building
  • Smell

• I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Songs

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Women
  • Real

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Everything
  • Interview

• Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Dream
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn’t he? You didn’t stop him before.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.

  

  James Wan
  • Stop

• I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Vanity
  • Assurance

• TF: At which point did you stop being celibate, why and who with? M: I don't see how anyone would benefit from seeing that kind of information in print. Least of all me.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Why
  • Stop