Heumens Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes ... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view. — Haile Gerima

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy. — Daniel O'Connell

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself. — Gail Porter

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that. — Benmont Tench

It's so hard for cool people these days. They just don't want us to be hip. — Wiz Khalifa

A little drop each day eventually fills the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. — Suzanne Collins

It's like he took the words right out of the deepest, most secretive part of my heart, the tiny room that's always locked up with the key swallowed for good measure. — Steph Campbell

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. — John Ralston Saul

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript. — Richard Meale

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. — Peter McWilliams

Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania?
Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania?
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's got an -ism these days.
Penny Sycamore: Oh
[laughs]
Penny Sycamore: I thought it was some kind of itch or something.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Well, it's just as catching. When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an -ism and you're in business. — George S. Kaufman

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory. — Patrick Gale

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
— Clarence Darrow