Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

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• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
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• I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
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• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
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• I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Face
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• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
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• I'm as honest as I can be.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • People
  • Up
  • Intuition

• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.

  

  Duncan Jones

• The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

  

  Astro Teller
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• I want to inspire people to do whatever they desire in life.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
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• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
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• I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Game

• I don't believe in bright, cheesy colors that are applied from roots to tips. I'm not really into that. But I love the more fashion-y way of adding color to your hair methodically.

  

  Ciara
  • Believe
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• There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
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• A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fighting

• One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Mistake
  • Excellence

• Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Life
  • Illusions
  • Disappointments