Top 217 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Morrissey - Page 3

Rush to danger; wind up nowhere.

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

I'd love to...but only with you.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you, so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die.

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill. I want to live and I want to love. I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

Satan rejected my soul; as low as he goes, he never quite goes this low.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.

Hold on to your friends. Resist - or move on Be mad, be rash Smoke and explode Sell all of your clothes Just bear in mind: There just might come a time When you need some friends

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

Even now - in the final hour of my life - I'm falling in love again.

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.

Again, I lay awake, and I cried because of waste.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.