Quotes of: Moore Keyword

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Thomas Fuller

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Thomas Fuller

Writing from the perspective of women survivors of violence, Moore is at his most appealing; though his writing about sex and brutality can verge on the exploitative, he sometimes reveals an unexpected sympathy with dominated women.

Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels

"We have rowed well," said the flea as the fishing boat arrives at its mooring.

Latvian

Another thing about pain - it renders you incapable of bullshit.

Cloak of Deceit: An Alex Moore Novel

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Laurie R. King

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Theodore Zeldin

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Jason Reitman

But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Dennis Miller

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Melinda Moores: What's your name? John Coffey: John Coffey, ma'am. Melinda Moores: Like the drink, only not spelled the same. John Coffey: No, ma'am. Not spelt the same at all.

The Green Mile

Clarissa Saunders: How many times have you heard me say "I'm fed up with politics" and I... no, I let him talk me into staying. Secretary to a leader of little squirts! Why? Because I need the job and a new suit of clothes! Diz Moore: Would you settl...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Mohsin Hamid

Dean Stanton: [after John Coffey helps Mrs. Moores] Well? What about Mrs. Moores? Was it like the mouse? [no one answers him] Dean Stanton: Was it a m-m... you know... a miracle?

The Green Mile

Melinda Moores: I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark. And so was I. And we found each other. We found each other in the dark. [reaches out her necklace to him] Paul Edgecomb: Take it, John. It's a present. Melinda Moores: It's S...

The Green Mile

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.

The Moor's Account

Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It’s what shapes our time here. It’s what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dol...

Nathan Myhrvold