Morning Quotes - Page 39

• The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? - has a kind of fun appeal.

  Nora Ephron

  Fun, Believe, News

  "Everything is copy". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2007.

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• When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Children, Dad, Home

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Lying, Sunshine, Years

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• Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

  Louis Nizer

  Book, Golf, Law

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• Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hours

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• Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend Quarter Sessions, and be able to declare morning and evening with a clear conscience that the country was going to the dogs? Such was the mental working of many a Conservative who supported Mr. Daubeny on this occasion.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Dog, Home

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1730, e-artnow

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• I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

  Warren Buffett

  Names, Two, Numbers

  "Warren Buffett: 'My elephant gun is loaded'". Interview with Dominic Lawson, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2002.

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• Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morning, "a morning without clouds," the morning of an eternal day.

  Mark Hopkins

  Strong, Struggle, Night

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, School

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

  Paul Keating

  Silly, Names, Television

  "Vintage Keating". Book by Brian Carroll, 2010.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Mean, Simple

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Children, Ocean, Writing

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1929.

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• Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.

  Chuck Jones

  Running, Baby, Moving

  "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones" by Joe Adamson, 1971.

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• Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Block, Sunday, Two

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Noble Man, Singing

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• I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.

  Halle Berry

  Mean, Eye, Character

  "Halle Berry: 'Catwoman for the New Century' Is in Control". The Seattle Times, July 23, 2004.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Successful, Army, Fighting

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creative, Want, Bed

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Responsibility, Pride

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• There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.

  Jimmy Carter

  Monday, Grateful, News

  "Jimmy Carter Talking About Himself . . . His Record . . . His Campaign". Interview with Meg Greenfield, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 1980.

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• It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more

  Prince

  Lonely, Rain, Sleep

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• It takes time to become myself every morning.

  Lady Gaga

  Take Time, It Takes Time, Every Morning

  "The Billboard Q&A: Lady Gaga's Good Romance". Interview with Bill Werde, www.billboard.com. March 04, 2011.

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• Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.

  Seth Gabel

  Dream, Choices, Forget

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• The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

  Ben Harper

  Running, World, Earning

  Song: Morning Yearning, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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• How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you

  Juliana Hatfield

  Heart, Failing, Boring

  Song: Total System Failure, Album: Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure, 2000

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