George Holyoake Quotes

Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • 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
  • Entertainment

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Me

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Different
  • Distance

• It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Cool
  • Smart
  • Honor

• Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faith

• 'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Time
  • Music
  • Forever

• Como las paga el vulgo, es justohablarle en necio para darle gusto.

  

  Lope de Vega

• I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Rebel

• I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

  

  Javier Bardem

• The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.

  

  James Carville
  • Sports
  • Winning

• For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

  

  Bernard Katz
  • Long
  • Power
  • Remember

• I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Black
  • City
  • Shoes

• For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Why

• Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.

  

  George Holyoake
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Meaning