Hovels Crossword Quotes

#1. The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

David Steindl-Rast

#2. During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

#3. Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Noel Coward

#4. I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Karel Reisz

#5. If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Henry Rollins

#6. Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold

#7. The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

Simon Blackburn

#8. At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

Peter Singer

#9. In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.

Svante Arrhenius

#10. In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

Debasish Mridha

#12. When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Jason Reitman