Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

I'm here with the cause, I'm holding the torchIn the corner of your room- can you hear me?And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living,Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.

Morrissey The Smiths

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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• I've always been a very prolific writer.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Been

• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Way
  • Find
  • Process

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Change
  • Where
  • Advancement

• My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Theater
  • Ensemble
  • Closeness

• The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Black
  • Kind
  • Million

• I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Technology
  • Experiments
  • Concepts

• Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Responsibility
  • Competition

• Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Free

• Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it’s a balance.

  

  Christy Haubegger
  • Rest
  • Practice
  • Moment

• I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Fun

• In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Believe
  • She
  • War

• For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.

  

  Kathleen Robertson

• You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Character

• I'm here with the cause, I'm holding the torchIn the corner of your room- can you hear me?And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living,Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths