Eric Hoffer Quotes
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
-
I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
-
For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
-
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
-
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
-
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
-
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
-
I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
-
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
-
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
-
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
-
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
-
What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?
-
It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.
-
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
-
Spice Market was just a big investment on lots of different levels.
-
Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
-
If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
-
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.
-
My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
-
I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.
-
We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
-
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (683)
-
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
