H. G. Wells Quotes

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

H. G. Wells

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• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • People
  • Like
  • Show

• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Environment

• I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Mistake
  • Moment
  • Glamorous

• A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Mind
  • Organization

• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Heart
  • America
  • Future

• There's a cat in the window, of the house of my lover.Well she sleeps there alone now, or perhaps with another.Oh I try no to think about that, I try not to think at all!

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • She
  • House
  • Alone

• If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs … Love for sale.

  

  Cole Porter

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Know
  • Give
  • Call

• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.

  

  David Morse
  • Red

• Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.

  

  Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World
  • Good
  • Perspective
  • Albums

• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Up
  • Value
  • Hero

• Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Thinking