Bill Hicks Quotes

takes a drag of his cigarette Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.

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• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Imagine
  • Emotions
  • Walk

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • Pen

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Think
  • Attention

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Body
  • Fat
  • Goat

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Future
  • Past
  • Question

• I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Think
  • Where

• A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Story
  • Conclusion
  • Truly

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Information

• That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Beautiful
  • Pound
  • Heavyweight

• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  

  Bette Davis
  • American
  • Mother
  • Actress

• In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • People
  • Live
  • Character

• Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Curiosity
  • Intuition

• takes a drag of his cigarette Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.

  

  Bill Hicks