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John Morley Quotes

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 24, 1838 - September 23, 1923

Topics

Good Opinions Worth Intelligent Way

I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

Winter Character Great Job Peace

If you were to build a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, you would still have to back that wall up with patrolling by human beings, sensors, observation devices.

You Back Wall Observation Build Up

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Meriwether Lewis

Day Mountains People Wind Cold High

I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.

Stephan Jenkins

Think Point I Think No Point

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

God Children History People Fall

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

You Director Controlling Writer

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

People Sometimes Passionate Obscure

I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right.

Horizon Trying You First Right Big

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Society Repetition Meaningful Act

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Alone Man Society Universe Group

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

Challenge Fight Always Took

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

Me Influence Comedy Doing Through

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