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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all g...
LORRIE MOORE To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You di...
LORRIE MOORE This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
LORRIE MOORE Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I j...
LORRIE MOORE A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a f...
LORRIE MOORE All the world's a stage we're going through.
LORRIE MOORE I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something fu...
LORRIE MOORE Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. The...
LORRIE MOORE If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way ...
LORRIE MOORE If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction w...
LORRIE MOORE I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be s...
LORRIE MOORE You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to...
LORRIE MOORE I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take li...
LORRIE MOORE A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a ki...
LORRIE MOORE Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enab...
LORRIE MOORE [T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessa...
LORRIE MOORE They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you di...
LORRIE MOORE Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you...
LORRIE MOORE Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
LORRIE MOORE She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you g...
LORRIE MOORE You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors ...
LORRIE MOORE Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you...
LORRIE MOORE When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry someb...
LORRIE MOORE I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
LORRIE MOORE Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind ...
LORRIE MOORE But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self t...
LORRIE MOORE She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
LORRIE MOORE He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bod...
LORRIE MOORE That's not the one you were thinking of?"

"No." There was accusation in her voice. "Mine...
LORRIE MOORE I just adore her work. It's the subtle way she has of talking about the entirety of a life and the s...
LORRIE MOORE Quilty grimaces. “I don’t like what comes after ‘dicker.’ ” “What is that?” Quilty sig...
LORRIE MOORE though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?
LORRIE MOORE Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.
LORRIE FAIR Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted...
LORRIE FAIR UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.
LORRIE FAIR Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just some...
LORRIE FAIR Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after pl...
LORRIE FAIR Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it...
LORRIE FAIR We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we ...
LORRIE FAIR The national team comes before everything.
LORRIE FAIR I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put i...
LORRIE BROWN It was very humiliating because I felt like people thought that I had actually broken the law.
LORRIE BROWN Then the lady told me, we know, but we still have to keep your license.
LORRIE BROWN I've never lived in Columbia. Never lived anywhere except Anderson County.
LORRIE BROWN It's the only one there is. They put a lot of effort into it. We haven't had anybody who really want...
LORRIE BAKER It's going to be absolutely wonderful.
LORRIE BAKER At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsof...
LORRIE CRANOR P3P is fairly easy for sites to deploy. Sites can go ahead and deploy P3P right now based on the May...
LORRIE CRANOR At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsof...
LORRIE CRANOR Any system we could build today that would come close to the needed level of security for a national...
LORRIE CRANOR These serious companies putting out P3P products definitely says to me that [P3P] is real,
LORRIE CRANOR P3P is fairly easy for sites to deploy, ... Sites can go ahead and deploy P3P right now based on the...
LORRIE CRANOR Right now, consumers have to hunt for privacy documents, and that can sometimes be scary when they s...
LORRIE CRANOR The project was done on a very small scale, in a very controlled environment,
LORRIE CRANOR I think anytime you can offer someone a job with the possibility of these stock options and making e...
LORRIE GRIFFITH I don't believe anybody's going to catch up with them anytime soon.
LORRIE GRIFFITH Some of our longtime residents are offended that they have to show us two forms. But because of (the...
LORRIE MILLER It is just as open to me as it is to them.
LORRIE MILLER I think they wait until people get so upset, then only maybe they will react. It takes extreme measu...
LORRIE MILLER Look at the amount of money on my shoestring budget and I still made a good showing. It's a good sta...
LORRIE MILLER Instead of riding them, you can have them pull a cart.
LORRIE JAMES I picked her up and was carrying her around.
LORRIE JAMES Look at them. They're so loving. I'm addicted.
LORRIE JAMES I think it's a good time to focus on peace, instead of fighting . Reconciliation and forgiveness, in...
LORRIE SWEET Everything was so orderly, a brand-new this and a brand-new that.
LORRIE THOMAS Nobody stays in a motel and brings that much stuff.
LORRIE THOMAS Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the wome...
CHERYL BENARD QUOTING LORRIE

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it w...
MANDY MOORE

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
MANDY MOORE

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an...
MANDY MOORE

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr...
MANDY MOORE

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their h...
MANDY MOORE

I do think it's possible to change for the better.
MANDY MOORE

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not ...
MANDY MOORE

It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo...
MANDY MOORE

We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th...
MANDY MOORE

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organizati...
MANDY MOORE

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
MANDY MOORE

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my expe...
MANDY MOORE

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global h...
MANDY MOORE

In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school a...
MANDY MOORE

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The fi...
MANDY MOORE

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
MANDY MOORE

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in...
MANDY MOORE

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not pr...
MANDY MOORE

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potentia...
MANDY MOORE

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytel...
MANDY MOORE

I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
MANDY MOORE No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any re...
THURSTON MOORE

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

War is a perversion of sex.
ALAN MOORE

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y...
ALAN MOORE

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr...
ALAN MOORE

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language...
ALAN MOORE

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi...
ALAN MOORE

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i...
ALAN MOORE

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
ALAN MOORE

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
ALAN MOORE

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
ALAN MOORE

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to wh...
SHEMAR MOORE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book ...
SCOTTY MOORE

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE

After all there is but one race -- humanity.
GEORGE MOORE

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Vict...
THOMAS MOORE Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
JOE MOORE I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE There are many, many instances where we've found that the cities that agreed to eminent domain use n...
ADRIAN MOORE It's crazy to think about replacing existing successful small businesses with other businesses.
ADRIAN MOORE We're not talking about using it to build new roads or dams or power lines. We're talking about givi...
ADRIAN MOORE Taking people's property away for a public interest is one thing, but taking it away to give to anot...
ADRIAN MOORE

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
ALAN MOORE

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in...
ALAN MOORE

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain ...
GEORGE MOORE

Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Trut...
MICHAEL MOORE

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
MARIANNE MOORE

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
THOMAS MOORE

All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made ...
THOMAS MOORE

How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds hav...
THOMAS MOORE

To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!
THOMAS MOORE Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
MARIANNE MOORE

Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps ...
THOMAS MOORE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
THOMAS MOORE

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
ALAN MOORE

She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is...
ADDISON MOORE

Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
ALAN MOORE

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
GEORGE MOORE

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of ma...
MARIANNE MOORE

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MOORE

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
MARIANNE MOORE

Language is a field of battle, the media is the artillery, and vocabulary is the ammunition. The NWO...
RICHARD MOORE

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,
When absent souls in fancy meet.
THOMAS MOORE

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
ROGER MOORE

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
GRACE MOORE

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cor...
GEORGE MOORE

He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain...
JOHN MOORE

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv...
THOMAS MOORE

The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that...
GREG MOORE

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that ...
DEMI MOORE

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MOORE

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
FRANKFORT MOORE

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
MARIANNE MOORE

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's ow...
GEORGE MOORE

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev...
MARIANNE MOORE

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE

The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
THOMAS MOORE

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE MOORE

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE

'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE

Superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out t...
GEORGE MOORE

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
GEORGE MOORE

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
MARCIA MOORE

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE

Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE

Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE

Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE

This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

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