C. Morley Quotes

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

The best photographs are made by the best people.

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

I have never willingly chased a ball.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.