Hugh Mulligan Quotes & Sayings

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests. — Matthew Scully

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.' — Craig Ferguson

After Elsa's death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was followed by a walk to the institute. After working until 1pm he would return home for lunch and a nap. Afterwards he would work in his study until dinner between 6.30 and 7pm. If not entertaining guests, he would return to work until he went to bed between 11 and 12. He rarely went to the theatre or to a concert, and unlike Bohr, hardly ever watched a movie. He was, Einstein said in 1936, 'living in the kind of solitude that is painful in one's youth but in one's more mature years is delicious'. — Manjit Kumar

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. — Kurt Vonnegut

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich

You'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self — David Archuleta

It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world? — John Moffitt

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere! — Rose Pastor Stokes

Courtney Durham was molested in a cake shop today. — Eric Bishop-Potter

By half-past one the last drop of pleasure had evaporated, leaving nothing but headaches. We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drunk. We went on swallowing the wine, but it was only from habit, and the stuff seemed suddenly nauseating ...
Most of my Saturday nights went in this way. On the whole, the two hours when one was perfectly and wildly happy seemed worth the subsequent headache. For many men in the quarter, unmarried and with no future to think of, the weekly drinking-bout was the one thing that made life worth living. — George Orwell

BEAR WAS DEAD. That sweet and kindly man, the wisest I had ever known, the one I considered friend, teacher, and even father, was gone. Would — Avi

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon — Alice Sebold

But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive. — Deb Caletti

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal. — Thomas Horn