Top 23 Hurrell Quotes
#1. Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature.
William Hurrell Mallock
#2. If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.
Josh Lieb
#3. Consolation from a stranger is better than discouragement from a friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
William Hurrell Mallock
#5. Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more.
Alex Comfort
#6. If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
Andy Griffith
#7. Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?
William Hurrell Mallock
#8. The emptiness of the things of this life, the incompleteness of even its highest pleasures, and their utter powerlessness to make us really happy, has been, at least for fifteen hundred years, a commonplace, both with saints and sages.
William Hurrell Mallock
#9. But there was nothing in the darkness. Only rain, and fire and the past.
Lou Morgan
#10. When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.
Micky Ward
#11. The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
William Hurrell Mallock
#12. Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
William Hurrell Mallock
#13. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.
William Hurrell Mallock
#14. Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
William Hurrell Mallock
#15. Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in.
Terry Tempest Williams
#16. Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
Amber Heard
#17. I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.
Guido Palau
#18. Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
William Hurrell Mallock
#20. I'll never forget my wedding day ... they threw vitamin pills
Groucho Marx
#23. We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.
John Stuart Mill
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