Ethan A. Hitchcock Quotes

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

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• Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

  

  Andy Roddick
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World

• Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Great
  • Interest
  • Sense

• All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Different
  • Idea

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Filters

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Regions
  • Travelled
  • Human Face

• 'Tallica Parking Lot' is, basically, roughly about a four-minute animated short which is centered around the parking lot of Metallica, and that can be anywhere in the world.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • World
  • Metallica
  • Parking

• I don’t know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn’t mine, that’s for sure.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Ideas
  • Brilliant

• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Doubt
  • Chance
  • Destruction

• Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Hate
  • Understood
  • Furious

• Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Ideas
  • Stage
  • Passions

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • Wisdom
  • Insufficient

• Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

  

  Ethan A. Hitchcock
  • Passions
  • Treasures
  • Alchemist