George Hamilton Quotes

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

George Hamilton

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• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Health
  • Will
  • Nervous

• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Stronger

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Things
  • Internet
  • Finding

• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • New

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Words
  • You
  • Story

• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Religion
  • River

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• In the United States, I always say that what makes America exceptional is not the fact that we’re perfect, it's the fact that we struggle to improve. We're self-critical. We work to live up to our highest values and ideals, knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly, but we keep on trying to perfect our union.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Cold
  • Mountain
  • Waterfall

• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People

• Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Remember
  • Dream

• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Question
  • Feminist

• We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern

• Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

  

  J. J. Watt

• I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

  

  George Hamilton