H. G. Wells Quotes

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

H. G. Wells

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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  • History
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• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
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• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

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• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
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  • Year

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
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• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
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  • Creation

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
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• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
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• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Like
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• I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Country
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• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Down

• He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him.

  

  Arthur Marx
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• I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Money
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• It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

  

  J Mascis
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Play

• Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

  

  James Merrill
  • Hope
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• Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
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  • Three

• When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Victory