Jim Morrison Quotes

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison The Doors

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• Sex
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• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Community
  • Football
  • Player

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • You
  • Hold

• What is writing but an expression of my own life?

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Own

• To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Obstacles

• On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Children
  • Standards
  • Valentine's Day

• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Luck
  • Once
  • Consistently

• For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • World
  • Problem
  • Chance

• Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Truth
  • Sex
  • Body