Top 100 Hoffman Quotes
#1. That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident.
Alice Hoffman
#2. Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
Alice Hoffman
#4. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.
Alice Hoffman
#5. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
Dustin Hoffman
#6. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#7. For a very long time I believed that when we left our home, we left my mother as well. Where our village had stood the burned fields would again become green and her flesh would be in every blade of grass.
Alice Hoffman
#8. The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.
Reid Hoffman
#9. Sally ... can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
Alice Hoffman
#10. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.
Paul Hoffman
#11. I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.
Alice Hoffman
#12. Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.
Paul G. Hoffman
#13. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.
Auren Hoffman
#14. When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
Reid Hoffman
#15. The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.
Gene Hoffman
#16. Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.
Trevor Hoffman
#17. As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
Simon Cowell
#18. The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
#19. If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
Paul Hoffman
#20. There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#21. He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Alice Hoffman
#22. If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Mat Hoffman
#23. I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#24. I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
Alice Hoffman
#25. He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs
Alice Hoffman
#26. World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
Reid Hoffman
#27. It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
Dustin Hoffman
#28. Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?
Dustin Hoffman
#29. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
Paul Hoffman
#30. [Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.
Alice Hoffman
#31. But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.
Alice Hoffman
#32. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.
Alice Hoffman
#33. In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#34. Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
Reid Hoffman
#35. You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.
Alice Hoffman
#36. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.
Alice Hoffman
#37. There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#38. Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.
Merle Hoffman
#39. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
Eva Hoffman
#40. Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
Alice Hoffman
#41. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
Mat Hoffman
#42. Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.
Alice Hoffman
#43. I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
Alice Hoffman
#45. It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#46. Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions ...
Auren Hoffman
#47. That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
Alice Hoffman
#48. Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
Alice Hoffman
#49. I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
Reid Hoffman
#50. Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.
Alice Hoffman
#51. We grew careless, as people who are lost often do.
Alice Hoffman
#52. ...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales.
Alice Hoffman
#53. My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
Dustin Hoffman
#54. Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
Alice Hoffman
#55. If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#56. In this sense, a business is far more like a sports team than a family.
Reid Hoffman
#57. Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
Alice Hoffman
#58. Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.
Beth Hoffman
#59. You don't need wealth to appreciate something beautiful.
Alice Hoffman
#60. I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.
David E. Hoffman
#61. If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.
Alice Hoffman
#62. A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Dustin Hoffman
#63. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.
Alice Hoffman
#64. No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
Alice Hoffman
#65. I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
Dustin Hoffman
#66. I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.
Bruce Willis
#67. Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#69. I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
Alice Hoffman
#70. If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#71. These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.
Reid Hoffman
#72. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.
Alice Hoffman
#73. When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Alice Hoffman
#76. Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#77. I wonder if I loved him because I thought no one like you would ever come along.
Vee Hoffman
#78. I do believe that certain people are fated to meet each other, to teach each other something essential, or show each other something essential. I can' t believe its all a coincidence
Wayne Hoffman
#79. There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman
#80. Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.
Alice Hoffman
#82. There was so much light in the world we knew we would never be able to count it all.
Alice Hoffman
#83. And you know what? That's okay. If you want to live your life with many things and forgo the life of living like a simplifier, no one can force you to. This has to be something
Neal Hoffman
#84. After explaining how a pearl is made she said: It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty.
Beth Hoffman
#85. You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!
Beth Hoffman
#86. If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#87. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.
Paul Hoffman
#88. What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
Alice Hoffman
#89. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.
Alice Hoffman
#90. If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.
Alice Hoffman
#91. If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme
Mary Hoffman
#92. I had long ago learned to ignore things I could not resolve. Whenever I was faced with such choices, something always occured to tip the scales one way or another and relieve me of the decision.
I watched the skies for portents from the Gods.
W.A. Hoffman
#94. Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader ...
Alice Hoffman
#95. C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman
#96. In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
Paul Hoffman
#97. The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
Reid Hoffman
#98. But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun
Alice Hoffman
#99. There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.
Paul Hoffman
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