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

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• 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

• 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.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Fame
  • Fast
  • Bubble

• 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

• Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Different
  • Years
  • Kid

• 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

• The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Love
  • Reason
  • Afterward

• When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Look
  • Makeup

• If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • World
  • Different
  • Black

• about his father I have a real respect, and a real anger and sadness at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do the math on exactly what it all means.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Time
  • Real
  • Father

• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feelings

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

  

  H. Rider Haggard