Hitchings Quotes

#1. Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate - the

Henry Hitchings

#2. gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? - JOHN DRYDEN AT

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#3. I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Sade Adu

#4. If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Among more recent innovators was the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel Bend Sinister is trophied with delightful oddities like kwazinka ('a slit between the folding parts of a screen') and shchekotiki (which is 'half-tingle, half-tickle').6

Henry Hitchings

#6. All kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

John Geddes

#7. Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

T.D. Jakes

#8. together they breakfasted on 'Venison and Chockalatte',

Henry Hitchings

#9. We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

Justin Sane

#10. A Teddy Bear is for life - not just for Christmas

Lorraine Hitchings

#11. I don't have sex unless I'm in a relationship. I'm old-fashioned when it comes to that. I really am!

Paris Hilton

#12. The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. He got Strahan to print fifty advertisements to be run in 'country papers', along with 250 showcards for booksellers' windows. Although none of this was expensive, the final account that Strahan presented was for more than £800, a sum that was not fully paid off until almost four years later. The

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#14. Initially, 2,000 copies were printed. Today this seems a modest figure, but the market was not huge: as late as the 1790s Edmund Burke estimated the reading public at below 100,000.

Henry Hitchings

#15. People want to be disturbed when they go see a horror movie.

Eli Roth

#16. On loof, literally 'on rudder', was a Dutch phrase spoken by the captain of a vessel when he wanted to steer a course away from a hazard such as a reef. It became aloof, a word that extended this idea of avoidance and evasion.

Henry Hitchings

#17. Chinese porcelain was popular, too. The word comes from the Italian for a cowrie shell; literally, porcellana was a 'little pig', and the connection seems grounded in the glossy shell's resemblance either to a pig's back or to a sow's glisteningly crinkled vagina.35

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#18. It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

Judd Nelson

#19. It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

Tina Brown

#20. I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.

Ernest Hemingway,