#out

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#asking #critics #dogs #feels #like

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#commonplace #degrading #fail #having #humiliating

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. ↗

— Learned Hand

#enough #form #into #itself #life

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. ↗

— Learned Hand

#determination #employee #manifestation #may #more

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#consider #creating #dangerous #dangerous thing #enemy

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#broke #did #disgusted #girl #going

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#anyone #apart #become #book #came

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#across #always #any #around #babe

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#always #am #i #i am #luck

A manufacturing district... sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighbourhood. ↗

— Henry Hallam

#into #manufacturing #neighbourhood #out #sends