H. G. Wells Quotes
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.H. G. Wells
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
Olivia Thirlby -
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
Gavin Andresen -
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
Natalie Massenet
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon -
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira -
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
Karl Rove -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
Ted Deutch -
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
Rachel Joyce -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Lopez -
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies -
In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
Liya Kebede -
I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
Fat Joe -
You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.
Muhammad Ali -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells