Kevin Morby Quotes

Anytime I'm locked out of somewhere with another person, I can usually pick the lock successfully. And then I feel like James Bond.

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• We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Change

• What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • High
  • Like
  • Dress

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
  • Uncomfortable

• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Single

• Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Remember
  • Balance
  • Animal

• God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Great
  • God

• His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

  

  Clive James
  • Black
  • Funeral

• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Mercy

• Ye that follow the vision Of the world's weal afar, Have ye met with derision And the red laugh of war; Yet the thunder shall not hurt you, Nor the battle-storms dismay; Tho' the sun in heaven desert you, 'Love will find out the way.'

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • War
  • Heaven

• Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Mother
  • Joy
  • Grandmother

• I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Superman

• We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don't like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Focus

• Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Time

• When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's why I'm attracted to the instrument, the bass. It brings depth. It's like playing in a rainforest.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Why

• I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

  

  David Baldacci
  • People
  • Tired

• A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• I just want kids to have a chance to go and try an Olympic sport. Every kid has a bike - that's how I started, and one kid coming along and giving it a go could make that journey to the Olympics.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Journey

• It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Army
  • Reich
  • Genelars

• I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• Anytime I'm locked out of somewhere with another person, I can usually pick the lock successfully. And then I feel like James Bond.

  

  Kevin Morby