Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Ernest Hemingway

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• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Successful
  • Research
  • Theory

• The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Stone
  • First Time

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Love
  • Game
  • Mom

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

  

  Jack Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Excited

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Today
  • Society

• There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

  

  David Mason
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Question

• I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

  

  Reggie Lewis
  • Year
  • Season
  • Call

• Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Moments
  • Taken
  • Return

• I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.

  

  Kele Okereke Bloc Party
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Modern

• Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Modern
  • Oppression
  • Liquor