Shiffman Morris Quotes & Sayings

I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD. — James D'arcy

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? — Dan Quayle

am i crazy for laying awake at night obsessing over you or is it natural — Katelyn Douglas

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny. — Jenny Eclair

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. — Jim Gaffigan

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. — Thomas Paine

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere. — Madeleine Albright

I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education. — Steven Yeun

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down. — Anne Waldman

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. — Reba McEntire

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes. — Amit Kalantri

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives. — Jim Goldberg

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of them. Something has been added to him which he had not had before. he is endowed with a briskness and an invention often alien to his blood. He is quicker in his movement, less trammeled in his judgement ... The change he undergoes is unmistakeable, New York, indeed, resembles a magic cauldron. Those who are cast into it are born again. — Charles Whibley