Kevin Morby Quotes

I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.

Kevin Morby

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• Driving
• Distance

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• I feel like I personally have been lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Help
  • Free
  • Education

• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Morning
  • Christmas
  • Week

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Evil
  • Moment
  • Injustice

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Year
  • Loyalty
  • Oath

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Reality
  • Him
  • Professor

• My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Wife
  • Body
  • Complain

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • End
  • Distance
  • Encouragement

• The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Choice
  • Innocent
  • September

• The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Live
  • Earth

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Blood
  • Kin
  • Caste

• I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • City
  • Fire
  • Driving