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“Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.”
Source: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
“Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.”
Source: The Moon and More
“Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?”
Source: Gosford Park: The Shooting Script
“Morrison read a news clipping about Margaret Garner while doing research for another book, and she decided to try to imagine what caused a woman to commit infanticide. What does it mean to be a mother to children who literally belong to another person?...What she created was a novel in the tradition of ghost stories, but in which the ghost represents more than just a person returning from the afterlife. The spirit also stands for the estimated sixty million people who died in the so-called land of the free during the time of enslavement.”
Source: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
“Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.”
Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
“Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.”
Source: Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
“Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.”
“Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!”
“Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?”
“Morse found it nerve-wracking to cross the St. Jude grounds just as school was being dismissed, because he felt that if he smiled at the uniformed Catholic children they might think he was a wacko or pervert and if he didn't smile they might think he was an old grouch made bitter by the world, which surely, he felt, by certain yardsticks, he was. Sometimes he wasn't entirely sure that he wasn't a wacko of sorts, although certainly he wasn't a pervert. Of that he was certain. Or relatively certain. Being overly certain, he was relatively sure, was what eventually made one a wacko. So humility was the thing, he thought, arranging his face into what he thought would pass for the expression of a man thinking fondly of his own youth, a face devoid of wackiness or perversion, humility was the thing.”
“Morse found it nerve-wracking to cross the St. Jude grounds just as school was being dismissed, because he felt that if he smiled at the uniformed Catholic children they might think he was a wacko or pervert and if he didn't smile they might think he was an old grouch made bitter by the world, which surely, he felt, by certain yardsticks, he was. Sometimes he wasn't entirely sure that he wasn't even a wacko of sorts, although certainly he wasn't a pervert. Of that he was certain. Or relatively certain. Being overly certain, he was relatively sure, was what eventually made one a wacko.”
Source: Pastoralia
“Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...”
Source: Service of All the Dead
“Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.”
Source: Inspector Morse: The first three novels
“Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.”
“Mort, un arbre ne vaut rien. Vivant, il EST la vie.”
Source: Et le désert disparaîtra
“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”
“Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.”
“Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling.”
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
“Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.”
“Mortal beauty stings while it delights.”
“Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible.”
Source: Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.”
“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
“Mortal feelings are so volatile that it's impossible to help toying with them a little.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Mortal frailty, greed, and error, know no boundary lines. The explosives of war do not care whose hands fashion them. Certainly, both Marxists and Christians can be cruel. Would that Christ came back to save us all. We do not know how to save ourselves.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.”
“Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.”
“Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!”
“Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.”
Source: Liber I
“Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible!”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.”
“Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?
Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?
For if thy life aforetime and behind
To thee was grateful, and not all thy good
Was heaped as in sieve to flow away
And perish unavailingly, why not,
Even like a banqueter, depart the hall,
Laden with life?”
“Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.”
“Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
“Mortality in Eating Disorders is partly caused by the medical complications of starvation and bingeing-purging, but suicide risk is also elevated. Suicide accounts for about 20% of deaths in anorexic patients; unsurprisingly, the risk is higher in AN-Bingeing/Purging than in AN-Restricted.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Mortality is a most curious Experience: In our youthful beginnings we eagerly sacrifice our health and bodies to have even the slightest worldly gain... Then in our aging twilight we hurriedly sacrifice every penny of our hard won wealth in hopes of hanging onto even the slightest bit of of our once bountiful health. Curious indeed...”
“Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.”
“Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.”
“Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.”
“Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.”
“Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.”
Source: Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series
“Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.”
“Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.”
“Mortality on the Atlantic produced a crisis of enormous proportions, as Africans labored under the cumulative weight of these deaths that remained unresolved. . . . Entrapped, Africans confronted a dual crisis: the trauma of death, and the inability to respond appropriately to death. This indirect violence, arguably, was the most abject experience of the captives’ Atlantic crossing.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.”
“Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins”