Quotes By Popular Topics: [H]
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the ...
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning ...
I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I ...
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.
Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain ...
Ooh, so generous. You're like Brad Pitt. You're hot and you love poor people.
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot ...
Never make a decision when you are in panic or drunk
I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?""I sure hope so," ...
Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.
Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don't want to, but to remind us that there are some things we don't ...
It sort of hit me that your life was basically a giant recipe - that you decided all the ingredients that you wanted to put ...
Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another ...
June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once ...
We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men
Most of the time, not all of the time, but most of time, when I'm singing and playing music, I feel in my heart, that ...
In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle ...
Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one ...
Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.
One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave ...
I don't believe war ever does. It's a madness that's in our nature. Sometimes it recurs; sometimes it subsides." "Sounds like a disease." "The herpes ...
Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a ...
CHAPTER XXXV CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER'S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE
I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one ...
He is defining the immediate future as follows: old people huddling in big cities, afraid of the sky.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.
Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I ...
The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much ...
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the ...
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
I wanted to take everything I was feeling, put it in a cannon and aim it at him.
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and ...
With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for ...
Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.
If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?
First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the ...
If I don't get back home to my wife, and if you should see her again, then tell her that I talked of her daily, ...
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual ...
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...
Why's my name the Large Professor?Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.
Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places ...
It's the cynics who never get married.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by ...
We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.
If we had ever met in person, I would have given her a kiss to thank her for all the wonderful help she gave me. ...
It's almost like we have ESPN.
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down ...
You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any ...
The race for first season sire honours is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere with young stallion Showcasing setting the pace.
I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down ...
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had ...
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not ...
You live well.The slum must be inside you.
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?""I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think ...
I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality. ...
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun ...
Time does not expand.""But time is actually expanding, isn't it? You yourself said that time adds up.""That's only because time needed for transit has decreased. ...
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, ...
Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told ...
Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.
Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from ...
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought ...
I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.
I have to admit I'm not real sure you being equipped to scrape her off at the drop of a hat fills me with joy." ...
Let's partequals, as we were in every bed, pureequals of the earth
The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ...
Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .
You use your time to the maximum if you work constantly.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark ...
Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has ...
Her waist goes in , her hips come out, her long black hair is coiled into a smooth bun on the top of her round ...
Larger than life itself, and I can't even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.
We've had fifteen years of being grown-ups when we could have got together and we never have. Doesn't that tell you something?''Yeah, that timing is ...
The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of ...
If you can't identify it, don't stick it in your mouth.