Aldous Huxley Quotes

I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

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• The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Beach
  • Waves
  • Hip Hop

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Long
  • Want
  • Body

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Exercise
  • Find
  • Gym

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Big

• I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • School
  • Friends
  • House

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Will
  • Anything

• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Write

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

  

  Mario Cantone
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Time
  • American
  • Morning

• Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

  

  Mike Greenberg
  • Miracle
  • Series

• On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Drug
  • Disease
  • Benefits

• I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Morning
  • Miracle