Moonburn On Morton Quotes & Sayings

If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others. — L.M. Fields

The peculiar, withdrawn attitude of the philosopher, world denying, hostile to life, suspicious of the senses, freed from sensuality, which has been maintained down to the most modern times and has become virtually the philosopher's pose par excellence - is above all a result of the emergency conditions under which philosophy arose and survived at all; for the longest time, philosophy would not have been possible at all on earth without ascetic wraps and cloaks, without an ascetic self-misunderstanding. To put it vividly: the ascetic priest provided until the most modern times the repulsive and gloomy caterpillar form in which alone the philosopher could live and creep about. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position. — Stephen Frears

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. — Alexander McQueen

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. — Albert Camus

Tell me about school, NoahNoah," the old man says..."Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him. "What did you write?""I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first. — Fredrik Backman

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. — John Fowles

A man of calm is like a shady tree.
People who need shelter come to it. — Toba Beta

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow. — Susan Kay

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did. — Alexander Hanson

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world. — Christopher Fry

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. — Danielle Steel

Always seek the general and never quite trust it. — Joseph Epstein

Concentrating on local foods means thinking of fruit invariably as the product of an orchard, and winter squash as the fruit of an early-winter farm. It's a strategy that will keep grocery money in the neighborhood, where it gets recycled into your own school system and local businesses. The green spaces surrounding your town stay green, and farmers who live nearby get to grow more food next year, for you. — Barbara Kingsolver

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller