Nobelist Morrison Quotes & Sayings

When I've been anxious, it was because I believed I couldn't handle whatever came my way and instead tried to stop life from happening. — Elizabeth Fox Brewer

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians. — Ariel Sharon

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t. — John Lennon

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. — Louis MacNeice

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. — John Chrysostom

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz. — Alber Elbaz

You've got to go out there and fight. — Clint Dempsey