Hillmont Quotes & Sayings

I'm searching for loopholes. — W.C. Fields

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. — Zaha Hadid

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us ... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce. — Wendell Berry

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing. — Fergus Henderson

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once. — James Goldman

All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup. — William Hjortsberg

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface. — Jenny Valentine

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet. — Trip Hawkins

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing. — Aziz Ansari

Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year. The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases. The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information - — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time. — Kyra Sedgwick

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. — Isaac Asimov

It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all. — Frank Portman

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live. — Michel De Montaigne