H. Rider Haggard Quotes
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
-
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
-
I dig all kinds of competition.
-
Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
-
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
-
Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
-
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
-
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
-
It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
-
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
-
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
-
This is America, not a banana republic.
-
If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
-
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
-
Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
-
I exist as I am, that is enough.
-
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
-
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
-
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
-
There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
-
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
-
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
-
You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.
-
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
