H. Rider Haggard Quotes
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
-
I'm a composer, man.
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
-
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
-
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
-
It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
-
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
-
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
-
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
-
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
-
It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
-
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
-
Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
-
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
-
An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
-
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
-
In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
-
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
-
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
-
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
-
Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.
-
Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.
-
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
