Bill Hicks Quotes

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

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• If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Home
  • True
  • Watergate

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Chance

• I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I think it's good to live an artful life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Believe
  • Common Sense

• My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Running
  • Advice
  • Theatre

• For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • High
  • Food
  • Body

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Society
  • Me
  • Desire

• Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Together
  • Brother
  • Lit

• Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Here
  • Cross
  • Your Love

• When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Good

• Virginity had come to carry the symbolic weight of not just a husband's desire to control the ancestry of the children born under his roof but of male desire to control the behavior of women and children. It had become a symbol of successful patriarchy as a whole.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Control
  • Virginity
  • Ancestry

• Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • World
  • War
  • Solution

• I love getting into people's brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Understanding

• I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

  

  Bill Hicks