Quinthia Morris Quotes & Sayings

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded. — Leila Janah

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it. — Stephen Shore

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.' — Jeff Kinney

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. — Betty Smith

To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day. — Veronica Lawlor

I love a good romantic comedy. — Joss Whedon

We are always getting ready to live but never living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read. I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from. — Don DeLillo

Being with Henry doesn't mean you have to give up who you are. Henry doesn't define you. — Aimee Carter

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. — Dean Koontz

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants. — John Lancaster Spalding

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown? — Michael Faraday

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!' — Ed O'Neill