J. N. Morgan Quotes

I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.

You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.

In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.

The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

I don't care about the money. I'm just interested in the perks. I'll do a series if I am picked up by a limo, work only until 4, and the show is shot in Hawaii.

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him.

I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

More than blood passes through the human heart.

You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.