Hogshead Quotes

#1. And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Mark Twain

#2. She was more like riding a sofa than a horse, with her broad back and sides curved like a hogshead of beer.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

#4. Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

Charles Lamb

#5. 2008: Drug overdoses, mostly from opiates, surpass auto fatalities as leading cause of accidental death in the United States.

Sam Quinones

#6. There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health.

Sandra A. Cusack

#7. Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.

Sally Hogshead

#8. You don't have to learn to be fascinating, you have to learn to be unboring.

Sally Hogshead

#9. We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.

Thomas Wolfe

#10. But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

Sally Hogshead

#11. One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#12. Messages that fail to fascinate will become irrelevant.

Sally Hogshead

#13. You don't need to find the light, you ARE the light; and when you let your personality shine you can light up the world.

Sally Hogshead

#14. The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish.

Sally Hogshead

#15. Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

Sally Hogshead

#16. I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Psychologists suggest that when people are no longer in charge of basic elements of a situation (such as where they sit, or when they go to the restroom), they must give over some degree of control that they normally use to define their independence, and thus themselves.

Sally Hogshead

#18. There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

William Congreve

#19. Even the giant lead balls are not as heavy as the two sad eyes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Sally Hogshead

#21. Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only a heartbeat, while others last beyond a seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

Sally Hogshead

#22. I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.

Debi Gliori

#23. Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Marcel Duchamp

#24. My child will bear those scars forever," Tilv said angrily.
"And if he isn't a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them," Neferre returned calmly.

Ash Gray

#25. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

Taya Kyle

#26. I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.

Sally Hogshead

#27. Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

Jay Woodman