H. Rider Haggard Quotes

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

H. Rider Haggard

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• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• I'm a composer, man.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Man
  • Composer

• 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.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Fun
  • Smart
  • Sexy

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Know
  • Lucky

• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Political
  • Human
  • Determined

• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  

  Maimonides
  • Law
  • Perfect
  • Possible

• Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Book
  • Effort

• It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Years
  • Race
  • Five

• 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.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Guy
  • Red
  • Management

• Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Family
  • Acting

• Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Knowledge
  • 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.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Lies

• I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Marijuana

• 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.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • History
  • Humanity

• One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Gratitude

• It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Up
  • Different

• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Beauty
  • Heat

• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • Mind

• I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • People
  • Disease
  • Bottles

• There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

  

  H. Rider Haggard