Joe Morgenstern famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Children are gleeful barbarians.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Mom #Children #Barbarians
Christopher Nolanâ€™s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Space #Stuff #Odyssey
Iâ€™ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Whales #Long #Special
In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Country #Queens #Taken
Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Space #Stuff #Odyssey
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
-- Joe Morgenstern

#Whales #Long #Special

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
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.
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

Joe Morgenstern famous quotes

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