Hanlon's Quotes

#1. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.2

Steven Pinker

#2. The sun is still there ... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

Elizabeth Goudge

#3. You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

Eva Herzigova

#4. One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

Philip J. Hanlon

#5. Old things can become new things.

Karen Foxlee

#6. As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor

Deana J. Driver

#7. I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#8. Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#9. Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

David Hackworth

#10. Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Courtney Love

#11. Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#12. Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

Michael Hanlon

#13. The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

Marcia Gay Harden

#14. Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#15. If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#16. And listened for Lula's knock on his door.

Janet Evanovich

#17. Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

Philip J. Hanlon

#18. Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

T.F. Hodge

#19. I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.

Michael Hanlon

#20. his beating heart, her tears absorbed by

EC Hanlon

#21. I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Nicholas Haslam

#22. In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Robert Henri

#23. I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Harry Frankfurt

#24. Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character may be a princess or a peasant; she might be a mermaid or a milkmaid, a ruler or a servant. You will find one thing all have in common: they must overcome adversity.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#25. Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

Kevin Focke

#26. What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved.

Glen Hanlon

#27. There is the Toilet Monster, who comes into the bathroom if you sit on the toilet for too long.

Abby Hanlon

#28. ...[the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be.

Redmond O'Hanlon

#29. You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Robert A. Heinlein