#after

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#been #book #days #deal #i

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#begin #characters #direction #feel #heading

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife? ↗

— Ernie Hudson

#avoid #because #being #children #families

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ↗

— William Hull

#aid #arrested #artillery #been #british

I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights. ↗

— John Hunter

#bugs #came #city #cos #country

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#after #atheism #begged #did #heart

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#anger

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40. ↗

— Amy Irving

#beginning #career #dedicate #enough #exciting