Daniel Humm Quotes

The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.

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• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• You just can't control your art in the future.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Future
  • Control

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Live
  • Care
  • Research

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Thought
  • Better

• Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Win

• People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • You
  • Hair

• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Love

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age

• That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Law
  • Grandmother
  • Fame

• I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • People
  • Writing
  • Help

• We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Black
  • Interesting
  • Space

• When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Time
  • Great
  • Breathe

• Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • Joy
  • Confidence

• I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

  

  Michael Reagan
  • Party
  • Enough
  • Republican

• The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.

  

  Daniel Humm