Hesketh Quotes

#1. In time," he said with a sigh, "I found a woman in a lowly hut, a cunning woman, a healer, such a thing as men call a witch and a hag. Hesketh was her name. She was a prisoner of hideousness as was I.

Anne Rice

#2. I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

Hesketh Pearson

#3. Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

Hesketh Pearson

#4. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

Hesketh Pearson

#6. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908

J.M. Carlisle

#7. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

#8. Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Hesketh Pearson

#10. There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Hesketh Pearson

#11. When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

James Altucher

#12. There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

Sam Yagan

#13. Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

#14. Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Hesketh Pearson

#15. You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

Rory Freedman

#16. Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you're out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume.

Emma Chase

#17. With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

Adam Driver

#18. A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Hesketh Pearson

#19. Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

Maggie Elizabeth Jones

#20. Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Hesketh Pearson

#21. Corporal, afterwards Lieutenant, Christie, of the P.P.C.L.I., was one of the individual pioneers of sniping.

Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard

#22. They were engineers. They knew about Murphy. They weren't about to upset no pixie.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'
just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.

Hilary Mantel

#24. Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.

Ed Catmull

#25. Yoga makes me feel like I can do anything.

Lady Gaga

#26. A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

#27. [D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice ... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

Hesketh Pearson

#28. So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Hesketh Pearson

#30. You mean fiction?" I said.
"I mean flesh-and-blood stories about what happens outside your head, Albert. Stories that touch your heart.

Peggy Hesketh