Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
Quotes to Explore
-
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
-
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
-
Conscience is God present in man.
-
I love to write.
-
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
-
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
-
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
-
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
-
If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
-
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
-
The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.
-
Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.
-
If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
-
I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.
-
My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
-
Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
