Christopher Morley Quotes

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957

Topics

PurposeMindThinkingDoingReal

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

NaturePurposeHerHighestOperation

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

John Mellencamp

SaidSheWouldBeforeCouldDixie

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Jeffrey Donovan

SchoolHigh SchoolYearHighStarted

I am confident that our experience, our scale, our intimate knowledge of the needs of our customers put us on the front line of economic and social progress.

Ana Patricia Botin

KnowledgeExperienceProgressI Am

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

LoveLiveJoyWorldWillWatching

I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.

Sonita Alizadeh

FutureVisionSupportHelpBackGo

I love that there's always something happening at festivals. It takes some of the pressure away, too, because you're one person on the bill.

Sigrid

LovePressureFestivalsYouPerson

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.

Robert Carlyle

WifeEndTryingArtistBathroomShe

I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

Lloyd Alexander

LifePersonalityImaginationIdeas

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Chris Cuomo

OpportunityTimeWorldSayingYou

Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.

Pete Hoekstra

WarWorldWorld War IINationEurope

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

LoveBodyBeingBecauseBeenJust

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