The Heath Quotes

#1. The quiet twilight was still trembling on the topmost ridges of the heath; and the view of London below me had sunk into a black gulf in the shadow of the cloudy night, when I stood before the gate of my mother's cottage.

Wilkie Collins

#2. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Emily Bronte

#3. wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex

Charles Portis

#4. Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.

Violet Fane

#5. Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

Flora Thompson

#6. In the countryside where the communal pattern was least disturbed, the new religion found the ground less favorable. The villagers (pagani) and the heath-dwellers (heathen) clung longest to the ancient cults.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

Emily Bronte

#8. Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Alexander Pope

#9. I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

Daniel Barenboim

#10. I could flee to the heath. Show them that they cannot keep me locked up, that I am a thief of time and will steal the hours denied to me!

Hannah Kent

#11. On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#12. With drooping bells of clearest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew
Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
So lightly trembling.

Reginald Heber

#13. If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

James Norton

#14. For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others ... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

Will Self

#15. He won't walk the woods alone:
He'll only walk the heath.
He blanks out all the lives he's known,
But they survive beneath.

Kate Tempest

#16. She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.

Vera Brittain

#17. There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

George Borrow

#18. An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Chip Heath

#19. I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Deborah Moggach

#20. Books are a gateway to the extraordinary, a portal for the unfettered imagination and limitless creativity.

Diana Jane Heath

#21. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Chip Heath

#22. I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#23. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.

Chip Heath

#24. Anti-narrative sequences of a man (Watt) sitting in a dark bedroom drinking bourbon while his wife (Heath) and an Amway representative (Johnson) have acrobatic coitus in the background's lit hallway.

David Foster Wallace

#25. If it pleases you.
And in his wprds, as always, Kate heard the echo of I love you.

Lorraine Heath

#26. Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I'd ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was passionately in love with a woman who possessed the wisdom to adore him as he deserved.

Lorraine Heath

#27. What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

Chip Heath

#28. Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.

Jimmy Heath

#29. It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.

Kevin Rudd

#30. Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying!

Heath Ledger

#31. I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Edward Heath

#32. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Chip Heath

#33. I couldn't tell what the hell Heath was talking about." Stark's stomach tightened. "You mean Aurox." "Yeah, Aurox." Zoey frowned. "That's what I said. So, what's going on?" Stark was too tired to argue with her, so he ignored her Freudian slip,

P.C. Cast

#34. There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

Phil Heath

#35. I think it's just a gash. Hurts like bloody hell, though. Remind me ... to never try to rescue you again."
"I can't believe the timing, that you stepped in just when I was thrusting. I didn't see you."
"I didn't see the knife, so we're even.

Lorraine Heath

#36. When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to

Lorraine Heath

#37. In the birthing process, you come out just realizing how stupid and weak men are! I mean, I might as well not have been in there, we're useless!

Heath Ledger

#38. Then he began tearing at his clothes. She heard the linen rip and the buttons ping as they scattered over the floor. She thought she should be frightened by the frenzy, but instead she was fascinated that she could elicit such a reaction from a man. That he was fairly mad with wanting her.

Lorraine Heath

#39. Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

Heath Ledger

#40. My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Deborah Moggach

#41. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.

Brandon Heath

#42. I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

Shirley Brice Heath

#43. What the devil is that? Jack asked.
Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.

Lorraine Heath

#44. Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.

Lorraine Heath

#45. When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

Chip Heath

#46. I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Heath Ledger

#47. A sound startled him, and to his everlasting irritation, his body jerked. The nurse was standing at the foot of the bed. Did they all have to creep around? He was going to insist bells be sewn onto everyone's clothes so he was aware of them approaching.

Lorraine Heath

#48. But the paparazzi are quite malicious and vocal and really rude, ... And they camped outside of my house, so I started throwing eggs at them, lobbing them at rocks next to them.

Heath Ledger

#49. The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

Chip Heath

#50. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.

Lorraine Heath

#51. You know we don't have to wait until the end of the night, just to say that something's wrong and maybe nobody's right. We're all victims in a battle, that we never had to fight. It's okay. It's alright. Steady now, we're in this thing together.

Brandon Heath

#52. Personally, I like one hand preacher curls with dumbbells. You don't have to do 100 pound dumbbells to get a burn. Heck I can do 35- 45 dumbbells and get something out of it. It's also great for guys that travel. It's the one piece of equipment that most hotels always have.

Phil Heath

#53. We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

Chip Heath

#54. He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.

Lorraine Heath

#55. Ah, Loree," he whispered near her ear. "You should hear the music."
-Austin

Lorraine Heath

#56. The challenge of marriage is learning how to walk together in such a way where neither person feels like they are being dragged.

Emily Heath

#57. I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

Heath Ledger

#58. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts.

Lorraine Heath

#59. So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..

Lorraine Heath

#60. that town, they had gone under and now just the rotting empty shell remained. Having left all that was his home

Tim Heath

#61. I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.

Zach Braff

#62. You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.

Lorraine Heath

#63. Challenge plot, the Connection plot, and the Creativity plot.

Chip Heath

#64. Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.

James R. Heath

#65. He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.

Lorraine Heath

#66. I'm not quite sure which scout troop Heath belonged to, but it certainly wasn't the "I will totally honor my previous promise of no hanky-panky in the shower" troop.

Victoria Laurie

#67. Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.

Chip Heath

#68. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built

Lorraine Heath

#69. punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about.

Chip Heath

#70. The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

Jack Heath

#71. Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they're collecting the data, and they don't realize they're cooking the books.

Chip Heath

#72. One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.

Joseph Heath

#73. I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

Edward Heath

#74. We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Edward Heath

#75. The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Chip Heath

#76. If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't ... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.
(p.72)

Chip Heath

#77. She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm and quiet scene,
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.

William Wordsworth

#78. We're actors at the end of the day. I don't take it home with me. My experience outside of work, I love ... when I hear wrap, it's the most exciting part of my day. I'm the first to have my make-up off, in the car, out. I've gotta go home. I want to get back to my life. I love it back there.

Heath Ledger

#79. You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me.

Lorraine Heath

#80. Once they were beyond hearing, Miss Darling said, "The upstairs is rather boring. It's only bedchambers."
"I've never found bedchambers to be boring.

Lorraine Heath

#81. The Springboard. Denning

Chip Heath

#82. If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

Kevin Heath

#83. Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'

Martin Henderson

#84. A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Chip Heath

#85. The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

Edward Heath

#86. He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it.
Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.

Lorraine Heath

#87. You should never make a decision the day before your period.

Miranda J. Barrett

#88. And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Chip Heath

#89. Oh, Papa, I've done something terribly silly. I've fallen in love with someone, and he loves another. The strange thing is, as much as it hurts, I only want him to be happy. And if she'll make him happy, I want him to have her.

Lorraine Heath

#90. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Chip Heath

#91. Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's

John Cena

#92. There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait and see
He's not finished with me yet

Brandon Heath

#93. This is the biggest problem in analytics today.

Chip Heath

#94. The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. Dallas to Cordelia:
You were my dream, Dee. I just didn't know it.The part of me that I was always searching for.

Lorraine Heath

#96. Family is family, and business is business. I love the boy, but not that much."
"Who are you kidding?" Heath had said. "You'd walk over coals for him."
"Yes, but I'd leave my checkbook behind while I was doing it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#97. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#98. You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Brandon Heath

#99. You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people ... you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.

Lorraine Heath

#100. Heath was me. And I was Heath. It was the way it had always been.

Erin McCarthy