Mark Morris Quotes

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing. ~ Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance. ~ Mark Morris

The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously. ~ Mark Morris

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century. ~ Mark Morris

The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible. ~ Mark Morris

Sunday is a day of rest. ~ Mark Morris

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today. ~ Mark Morris

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic. ~ Mark Morris

I want people to look like people when they're dancing. ~ Mark Morris

Perhaps ... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form. ~ Mark Morris

Here's the thing, I've been cooking more and more and I'm pretty good; the problem is I can only go out to restaurants that cook better than I do, therefore, it's expensive. ~ Mark Morris

I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided. ~ Mark Morris

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up. ~ Mark Morris

I have a beautiful, big bathtub. ~ Mark Morris

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options. ~ Mark Morris

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company. ~ Mark Morris

I love making up titles. ~ Mark Morris

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful. ~ Mark Morris

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere. ~ Mark Morris

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want. ~ Mark Morris

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances. ~ Mark Morris

Love? The Doctor Sneered. What do you know about love?
I read it in the mind of this creature. He has such love for you. They all do. And you for them.
Yeah, well, that's what happens when people play Twister in sub-zero temperatures. They stick together. Sometimes literally. ~ Mark Morris

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything. ~ Mark Morris

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. ~ Mark Steyn

[She was] like an exclamation mark in human form. ~ Jenna Evans Welch

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness. ~ Mark Strand

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. ~ Mark Richard

I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future. ~ Mark Valley

I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning. ~ Mark Evelyn Heath

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages. ~ Morris Chestnut

Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of species before they become extinct, it's like someone hurrying through a burning library desperately trying to jot down some of the tittles of books that will now never be read. ~ Mark Carwardine

It is easier to stay out than to get out. ~ Mark Twain

There are two types of speakers: those that
are nervous and those that are liars. ~ Mark Twain

Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be." ~ Janet Morris

Sometimes the road to Heaven leads you straight through hell. If it's hard going, chances are, you are on the right path. ~ Mark J. Jannetta

We're the beneficiaries of prayers we know nothing about. God was working long before we arrived on the scene and He's using us to set up the next generation.

We tend to think right here, right now.

God is thinking nations and generations.

We have no idea how our lives are going to alter the course of history downstream, but there is a divine domino effect for every decision we make. Don't underestimate the potential impact of obeying God's prompts. Those are the whispers that will echo for all eternity! ~ Mark Batterson

Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold. ~ Mark McNairy

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes. ~ Mark Twain

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. ~ Mark Twain

The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way. ~ Mark Chironna

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution. ~ Mark Levin

Many have emphasized that our ability to reason is the distinguishing mark of the soul. Others have argued that our ability to communicate sets us apart. Still others have stressed that our ability to love or to sense God or to make moral judgments manifests our imago Dei. Many theologians have concluded that all of these features manifest the soul. In each case, however, the divine image is located in the soul of humans. St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin are classic representatives of this perspective. A ~ Gregory A. Boyd

Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature ... Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism. ~ Mark Starr

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others. ~ Mark Waid

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged. ~ Simon Conway Morris

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. ~ Mark Twain

This, since junior school, had been virtually my only experience of women - as fantasy figures. Reading about women in fantasy novels had set me an even more unrealistic point of view. The Lord of the Rings doesn't help, with its sexless visions of elf maidens who may as well be speaking paintings, and neither does other fantasy literature, where women seem to exist solely to be rescued or slept with. The men they want are sorcerer-kings, doomed warriors or deadly assassins. I think the idea that women might fancy good-looking, well-adjusted men who are nice to them is too much for the average fantasy-head to bear. ~ Mark Barrowcliffe

Whoever said "violence doesn't solve anything," had never given a right dickhead a pasting in a car park before. G ~ Mark Jackman

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. ~ Mark Twain

Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with "looking good" a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food. ~ Mark Lawrence

I wanted to get superimposed on a shuttle launch. ~ Mark Roberts

When its steamboat time
you steamboat ~ Mark Twain

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying. ~ Mark Twain

After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which opened on and down beneath the suddenly smooth surface of his skin ... The heat in him lasted a long time. I loved that heat. I don't know how long I held his face and his shoulders and stroked him; as he began to cool I kept my hands on his belly, where the last of his warmth seemed to pool and concentrate. Here the fire of the body came to rest, smoldering longest, down to the last embers. ~ Mark Doty

My point being, what if my attacks are enterly unrelated attributable in fact to something entirely else, perhaps for instance just warning shocks brought on by my own crumbling biology, tiny flakes of unknown chemical origin already burning holes through the fabric of my mind, dismantling memories, undoing even the strongest powers of imagination and reason?
how then do you fly from that path? ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. ~ Mark Twain

If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream. ~ William Morris

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education. ~ Mark Kennedy

Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another. ~ Mark Twain

I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!"
The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?"
He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger. ~ Gerald Morris

Cupid, that chubby cherub love dispenser, is dead. But before he died, he appointed me his apprentice in love.

I loved Cupid, and that was precisely why I killed him. I strangled him. Then I shot him 17 times with his heart-shaped arrows.

Then I burned his body while I roasted and toasted marshmallows and toasted to the good times he brought to the world.

Then I took his ashes and mixed them in cake batter and literally consumed him.

Mark it down: I have officially taken over as the foremost authority on love.

I can't fly around like he could, but I have other endearing qualities. I can't think of any at the moment, but I must have some. ~ Jarod Kintz

We ain't dead
we are only off being pirates. ~ Mark Twain

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar. ~ Mark White

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure. ~ Mark Feuerstein

Distinguishing Marks
Every land has its distinguishing mark.
Particular to Thessaly are horsemanship and horses;
what marks a Spartan
is war's season; Media has
its tables with their dishes;
hair marks the Celts, the Assyrians have beards.
But the marks that distinguish
Athens are Mankind and the Word. ~ Constantine P. Cavafy

I rely on one thing in this world:
my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with the
strongest hand possible. ~ Liv Morris

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this ... the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.

It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me. ~ Duane Michals

In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. ~ William Butler Yeats

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work. ~ Mark T Bertolini