Emily Mortimer quote: "Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous."

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e...
EMILY MORTIMER

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the fi...
EMILY MORTIMER

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to ...
EMILY MORTIMER

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of o...
EMILY MORTIMER

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.
EMILY MORTIMER

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life wh...
EMILY MORTIMER

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was al...
EMILY MORTIMER

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretendi...
EMILY MORTIMER

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - y...
EMILY MORTIMER

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, mo...
EMILY MORTIMER

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
EMILY MORTIMER

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I thin...
EMILY MORTIMER

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
EMILY MORTIMER

I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
EMILY MORTIMER

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that...
EMILY MORTIMER

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more...
EMILY MORTIMER

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaning...
EMILY MORTIMER

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad...
EMILY MORTIMER

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live ...
EMILY MORTIMER

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a c...
EMILY MORTIMER

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
EMILY MORTIMER

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcup...
EMILY MORTIMER

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy...
EMILY MORTIMER

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they b...
EMILY MORTIMER

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love...
MORTIMER ADLER

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
JOHN MORTIMER

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as...
MORTIMER ADLER

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide...
MORTIMER CAPLAN

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
MORTIMER CAPLAN

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitiv...
JOHN MORTIMER

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; ...
MORTIMER COLLINS

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which th...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients ...
MORTIMER ADLER

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involv...
MORTIMER ADLER

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
JOHN MORTIMER

Love without conversation is impossible.
MORTIMER ADLER

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We ar...
MORTIMER ADLER

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
JOHN MORTIMER

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession o...
MORTIMER ADLER

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
MORTIMER ADLER

We just have to keep doing what we're doing. We're really playing well right now. We have to keep it...
ANDREA MORTIMER

We definitely play well together. We're good friends off the court, too.
ANDREA MORTIMER

Sometimes it changes your mentality a little, but I try not to think about it. I just still try to p...
ANDREA MORTIMER

It's surprising. I really wasn't expecting it. It's cool that Bethany and I both made it. It was a g...
ANDREA MORTIMER

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be cons...
MORTIMER ADLER

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but...
MORTIMER ADLER

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the o...
MORTIMER ADLER

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that m...
MORTIMER ADLER

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
MORTIMER ADLER

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
MORTIMER ADLER

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things oc...
MORTIMER ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live...
MORTIMER ADLER

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his...
MORTIMER COLLINS

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity
MORTIMER ADLER

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
JOHN MORTIMER

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an...
JOHN MORTIMER

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do no...
MORTIMER ADLER

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligibl...
MORTIMER ADLER

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop in...
MORTIMER ADLER

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why the...
MORTIMER ADLER

Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastr...
JOHN MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
JOHN MORTIMER

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
JOHN MORTIMER

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER ADLER

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself
MORTIMER ADLER

The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are co...
JOHN MORTIMER

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wis...
MORTIMER COLLINS

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
MORTIMER CAPLIN

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
MORTIMER ADLER

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
MORTIMER ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER ADLER

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not ap...
MORTIMER ADLER

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER

Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.
MORTIMER ADLER

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith w...
MORTIMER ADLER

After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild de...
MORTIMER ADLER

Office life taught me to be tolerant, lazy and a good gossip.
BOB MORTIMER

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

Vic, have you farted?
(Vic: No).
What, never?
BOB MORTIMER

Children can spot pomposity, insincerity and self-regard a mile off and are the best possible antido...
JOHN MORTIMER

Champagne socialist
JOHN MORTIMER

I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In smal...
JERRY MORTIMER

We love even when our love is not requited.
MORTIMER ADLER

You have a tough crowd to please. If you arrive with something that doesn't piss anybody off, then y...
RICHARD MORTIMER

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries ...
IAN MORTIMER

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
MORTIMER ADLER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
JOHN MORTIMER

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
MORTIMER ADLER

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself,...
MORTIMER ADLER

We must have given them eight points on second chance shots.
JERRY MORTIMER

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
MORTIMER ADLER

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
MORTIMER ADLER

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, wi...
MORTIMER ADLER

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence ...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than...
MORTIMER ADLER

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
MORTIMER ADLER

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how man...
MORTIMER ADLER

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that ...
MORTIMER ADLER

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
MORTIMER ADLER

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or ...
MORTIMER ADLER

This strategy has a lot of teeth.
JEFF MORTIMER

If you share too much, the world will copy you.
JEFF MORTIMER

People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as...
JEFF MORTIMER

The surprise of the quarter was really the strength of small-cap market when most pundits were sayin...
JEFF MORTIMER

Schwab Hedged Equity has a core belief: There is an upward drift to the stock market.
JEFF MORTIMER

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do
RAYMOND MORTIMER

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosi...
EMILY

Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Sin is not only manife...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how man...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we cont...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily li...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is show...
CHARLES G. MORTIMER

The creeping notion that additives are badditives.
CHARLES G. MORTIMER

Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place i...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thin...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3....
MORTIMER J. ADLER

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read be...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and...
EMILY DICKINSON

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON

Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

My friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSON

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion...
EMILY GIFFIN

I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
EMILY OSMENT

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTE

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
EMILY CARR

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
EMILY BLUNT

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m...
EMILY DICKINSON

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh...
EMILY CARR

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, ...
EMILY BERRINGTON

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm a big zombie buff.
EMILY VANCAMP

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON

May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
EMILY BRONTë

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTë

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë

Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë

She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë

Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë

It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON

My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL

Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.
EMILY DICKENSON

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH

Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

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Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

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