Hoeteds Quotes & Sayings

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature. — Jeff Tweedy

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. — Oscar Niemeyer

As many suffer from too much as too little. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. — Rebecca Solnit

The only selfish life is a timid one. — Jeanette Winterson

The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual, a mammal shaped by evolution, material needs, cognitive biases and historical circumstances no doubt, but still a creature with a better right to state his opinions than kings and clerics have to silence them. — Nick Cohen

Aside from that, however, Rigg didn't mind being ugly. In fact, she liked herself and just pretended that she didn't when she was around other women. For there was nothing so criminal as a woman liking herself. — Ash Gray

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. — Barney Frank

Mr Corcoran, whom by chance I was observing, smiled preliminarily but when about to speak, his smile was transfixed on his features and his entire body assumed a stiff attitude. Suddenly he sneezed, spattering his clothing with a mucous discharge from his nostrils.
As my uncle hurried to his assistance, I felt that my gorge was about to rise. I retched slightly, making a noise with my throat similar to that utilized by persons in the article of death. My uncle's back was towards me as he bent in ministration.
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I clutched my belongings and retired quickly as they worked together with their pocket-cloths. I went to my room and lay prostrate on my bed, endeavouring to recover my composure. — Flann O'Brien

I am now in control of all things. — Jim Harbaugh

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us. — Robert Edwards

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them. — Joseph M. Kahn