Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

GQ: 'Were you in love with Johnny Marr?'M: 'Sexually? Absolutely not. There was a love and it was mutual and equal but it wasn’t physical or sexual. There are lots of people post-Smiths who would like to make some dramatic homosexual story. There never was one. It’s often said that Johnny rescued me but he was also bobbing about in his own lifeboat.'

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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

Carine Roitfeld
- Family
- Kids
- Earth
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Art
- Society
- Poetry
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

Saint Basil
- Men
- Words
- Eye
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid
- Good
- Men
- Value
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

Natalie Imbruglia
- Up
- Children
- Parents
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Tea Obreht
- People
- Life
- Writing