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Dennis Morley

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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.
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I figure he can give me the most insight into how to go about this.
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It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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Tell me, friend. Is there more for us?"
I looked into his eyes, "There is everything for us.
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Tell me you'll see me again one last time; and I'll pretend like it's the first time I ever saw you.
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She kept looking back at me. The last time she looked back and she winked at me.
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Don't tell me about people. There's not a lot of people there.
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Time will tell what happens this winter.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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Time will tell. This is not like the railroad.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
MORLEY SAFER
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY
Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those wh...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the gr...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ab...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY