William Morris Quotes

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.

William Morris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 24, 1834 - October 3, 1896

Topics

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It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilyTogetherImpossibleTrees

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

Michael Ignatieff

BusinessGreatPoliticsMistakeJust

In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

Anand Giridharadas

ChangePowerfulRealIllusionsGuide

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

Steven Adams

BeautifulManPoetryStoryFishPig

I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

ColleaguesAmericanBootsYouCowboy

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

Robert Zubrin

MoneyGovernmentPeopleProblemsOwn

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.

Michel Foucault

TimeIntelligenceStartPolitical

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

Jason Blum

GreatMyselfKindGroupHorrorNuts

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

Jason Priestley

ExperienceYourselfFunWrongActor

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Jonathan Dee

New YorkNewPersonalSumSynthesis

You have to understand the nature of light.

Conrad Hall

NatureLightYouUnderstand

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

Peter Sis

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