Hitchcocks Quotes & Sayings

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. — William Whipple

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. — Woody Allen

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do? — Jeannette Walls

Be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He was separated from his wife (he has since married Susan B. Anthony III). He had a son about ten years old whom I met once when he was visiting his father (on some holiday — Whittaker Chambers

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. — Michael Gove

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP! — Philip Pullman

There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy. — Jason Robert Brown

That which never was, cannot exist, and that which exists, cannot cease to exist. Even the Sun is transient, coming into existence and vanishing. The candle both exists and does not exist, for, when it is burnt, its substance dissolves back into the five elements. Everything which has a name and a form ceases one day to exist in that particular mode, though it does not cease to be a creation of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down ... — Charles Bukowski

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. — Tom Brokaw