#non

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#barely #dallas #dross #entertainment #i

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#civilization #fear #great #may #out

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#banking #because #canada #canadians #causes

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision. ↗

— Davey Havok

#became #best #compassion #concerned #consumption

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— Carl Jung

#mind #nonsense #pendulum #right #right and wrong

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#best #done #escaped #finally #first

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#books #clicked #comic #comic book #good

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#chosen #many #more #none #people