H. G. Wells Quotes

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

H. G. Wells

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  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Up
  • America

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Relationship
  • Years
  • Google

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Just
  • Horror
  • Watch

• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • America
  • You

• The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Great
  • War
  • Help

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Loved

• I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Back

• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Country
  • Education
  • Teacher

• At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Time

• You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People

• I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Career

• If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Heaven