Aldous Huxley Quotes

We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

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• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Always

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Most men are fragile.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Men
  • Most
  • Fragile

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Kids

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Good
  • God
  • Live

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Hard
  • Nothing
  • Awake

• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Possible
  • Hold
  • Grip

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Amazing

• A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

  

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
  • Time

• The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Support
  • Government

• It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • People
  • Important
  • Legacy

• ... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Darkness

• We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

  

  Aldous Huxley
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