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Christopher Morley 30
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957Related quotes
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
“Then you have no more wish to rule? The country needs you now more than ever.”
She shook her head. “I’ve been crushed under the weight of power all my life. I think I’m going to enjoy missing it.” She laughed at the lightness with which she dismissed royal power. Every moment was a surprise, these days. She hoped that that feeling would never end.
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 45 (p. 655)
“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”
As quoted in Creative Leadership : Mining the Gold in Your Workforce (1998) by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168
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“We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 364
“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”
C'est un métier que de faire un livre, comme de faire une pendule: il faut plus que de l'esprit pour être auteur.
Aphorism 3; Variant translation: It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.”
Source: The Marquis of Lossie