J. B. Morton famous quotes

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Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.
-- J. B. Morton

#Children #Eye #Water
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
-- J. B. Morton

#Justice #Done
Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
-- J. B. Morton

#Horse #Cows #Milk
A library is a room where the murders take place.
-- J. B. Morton

#Library #Rooms #Murder
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
-- J. B. Morton

#Wife #Trying #Ears
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
-- J. B. Morton

#Mind #Minutes #Of My Mind
To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
-- J. B. Morton

#Squares #Light #Black
Economy: cutting down other people's wages.
-- J. B. Morton

#Cutting #People #Wages
Wagner is the Puccini of music.
-- J. B. Morton

#Wagner

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.
It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
Of course, you canâ€™t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

J. B. Morton famous quotes

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