I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON [10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right...
JENNIFER MORRISON Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
MATTHEW MORRISON How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
TONI MORRISON I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes ...
JENNIFER MORRISON I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantl...
JENNIFER MORRISON Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning...
GRANT MORRISON We're just trying to cut every possible expense that we can. Most people just see Ritter Park and do...
ALAN MORRISON We don't know how wide this electronic vacuum cleaner is sweeping.
ALAN MORRISON It's not the mischief in this case that would cause the (Supreme) Court to be worried. It's the next...
ALAN MORRISON Each house has to pass the whole law and the same law. This is a case where the Constitution is very...
ALAN MORRISON The fact that she's a successful lawyer doesn't mean she's going to do a good job as a Supreme Court...
ALAN MORRISON There was certainly a question when Judge Thomas was nominated. He hadn't written a lot of legal opi...
ALAN MORRISON The jet hit some approach lights in Flushing Bay. After that, the nose gear collapsed and the plane ...
ALAN MORRISON John Roberts is a very careful and good lawyer, and I think the facts (of each case) will matter to ...
ALAN MORRISON The Senate ought to be very concerned about this,
ALAN MORRISON There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
JIM MORRISON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...
TONI MORRISON It's been a great process so far. It's been fun, but I've decided to try to take my game to the next...
ADAM MORRISON He's had a great career.
ADAM MORRISON Time is of the essence. I'm going to deteriorate a little faster than anyone else.
ADAM MORRISON I guess to be a unanimous pick with J.J. seems only fitting since the two of us have been followed s...
ADAM MORRISON We were in control, and it just happened in a blur.
ADAM MORRISON They had lots of friends. They made everybody laugh. It’s a big los...
ADAM MORRISON Aaron was awesome, just a big party guy and Tim was just the same as Aaron.
ADAM MORRISON I've been in those situations where -- Boom! Your season ends. I kinda feel for those guys.
ADAM MORRISON Uh yeah, you don't execute down the stretch, you pay for it.
ADAM MORRISON It just happened in a blur. I hate losing, period. I mean anything, especially basketball.
ADAM MORRISON Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
TONI MORRISON Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON I think what's happening in Sierra Leone is a crisis for that country, of course, but it's also a cr...
ALEX MORRISON I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to esta...
ALEX MORRISON I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.
ALEX MORRISON I think the Congo force is in danger of not being enacted if we don't clean up the act in Sierra Leo...
ALEX MORRISON I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standar...
ALEX MORRISON I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay thei...
ALEX MORRISON However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great inf...
ALEX MORRISON All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will p...
ALEX MORRISON You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it
ALEX MORRISON As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the internati...
ALEX MORRISON It's making Stonington one type of person who lives here.
ALISSA MORRISON We're saying you can work here but you can't live here? No one's going to drive 45 minutes to work a...
ALISSA MORRISON We need to find developers who are willing to work with the town and make it affordable.
ALISSA MORRISON But we need those types of people in town to work in the coffee shops. You start talking to the youn...
ALISSA MORRISON Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for...
JIM MORRISON If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...
JIM MORRISON A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ...
JIM MORRISON People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...
JIM MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...
TONI MORRISON I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
JIM MORRISON People are strange . . .
JIM MORRISON Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof t...
GRANT MORRISON You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
JIM MORRISON The selective memory isn't selective enough.
BLAKE MORRISON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...
TONI MORRISON You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
ALEX MORRISON There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
JIM MORRISON Music inflames temperament.
JIM MORRISON The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. ...
JIM MORRISON Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's a...
JIM MORRISON Drugs are a bet with your mind.
JIM MORRISON A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
JIM MORRISON Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JIM MORRISON People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...
JIM MORRISON The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...
TONI MORRISON We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying tha...
JIM MORRISON You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going t...
JIM MORRISON Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...
JIM MORRISON That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...
JIM MORRISON Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
JIM MORRISON Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself...
JIM MORRISON Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. ...
JIM MORRISON For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.
DENISE MORRISON There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
JIM MORRISON I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with som...
JENNIFER MORRISON Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. ...
JENNIFER MORRISON The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...
JIM MORRISON Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks...
JIM MORRISON A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
JIM MORRISON The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...
JIM MORRISON People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more ...
JIM MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts
JIM MORRISON I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me jus...
DENISE MORRISON I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black...
JENNIFER MORRISON Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure t...
DENISE MORRISON He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.
MATTHEW MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was inter...
GRANT MORRISON I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft re...
JIM MORRISON We devote a good amount of time, energy and efforts educating them about bigotry and hatred.
BARRY MORRISON The skinhead phenomena originally was not tied to hatred and bigotry when it began in England.
BARRY MORRISON Some people look like neo-nazis or skinheads, but do not have the same ideology of hatred. They woul...
BARRY MORRISON To be a skinhead is to be violent. They have a great tendency to engage in criminal activity.
BARRY MORRISON Nabokov manipulates the reader into really experiencing this wild desire, and you forget that [Humbe...
ASHLEY MORRISON I guess I just don't trust that school anymore. I think this will be better.
ASHLEY MORRISON I guess I just don't trust that school anymore. I'm not really caught up in my work, either, after m...
ASHLEY MORRISON She was nice. She was so sweet. I rode the bus with her and I kept asking, why did he shoot her?
ASHLEY MORRISON I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
DENISE MORRISON Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
TONI MORRISON It wasn't as difficult in Egypt because the professors were more laid back. Over there, high GPAs do...
ANNE MORRISON It wasn't as difficult in Egypt because the professors were more laid back. Over there, high GPAs do...
ANNE MORRISON All my scenes are in my bedroom trying on corsets, ... There's a little bit of nudity, but it's tast...
ANNE MORRISON I also did some really crappy TV, like 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Jag,' 'The Sentinel' and 'Viper,' ...
ANNE MORRISON You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationsh...
DENISE MORRISON I loved multi-tasking. I loved being involved in a lot of things. To me, the more complex the better...
DENISE MORRISON Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
TONI MORRISON I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York ...
PHILIP MORRISON Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
TONI MORRISON I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
MATTHEW MORRISON Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules...
JIM MORRISON I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-aller...
JENNIFER MORRISON I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ...
JON MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. TONI MORRISON You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
JIM MORRISON We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's ...
JIM MORRISON Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious.
JIM MORRISON I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contemp...
TONI MORRISON Tell them you came, and saw, and looked
into my eyes and saw the shadow
of the guard reced...
JIM MORRISON Through his deferential yet decidedly determined demeanor, Pope Francis is not only setting a superi...
DENISE MORRISON We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands...
ALEX MORRISON I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pre...
GRANT MORRISON I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the hom...
MATTHEW MORRISON Really the last couple of times out we've really done a much better job of pitch selection with our ...
BRIAN MORRISON Our pitchers did a very nice job. I think we only had two walks, so they did a good job of throwing ...
BRIAN MORRISON Our key was playing good defense and getting timely hitting, but we didn't do either one of those. T...
BRIAN MORRISON We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so...
BRIAN MORRISON If I had to do it again, I would use RDR instantly.
BRIAN MORRISON We didn't do this last year in Washington, D.C.. But the conference voted to bring it back this year...
BRIAN MORRISON His record withstood the test of time, in the country's pre-eminent basketball conference. No other ...
BRIAN MORRISON With classes resuming the following Monday, the amount of time to ship the drives to a data recovery...
BRIAN MORRISON It is more than I thought it would be. It's going to be extraordinary when it's finished in two mont...
BRIAN MORRISON Our mission is to make people as comfortable as possible as they're undergoing the treatment process...
BRIAN MORRISON You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON They did a good job of neutralizing us in the last 10 minutes. We couldn't get in on them and give a...
BRENDAN MORRISON