#ali

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#draw #great #heavenly #more #much

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#every man #exception #forms #his #man

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#became #device #directing #expression #fascinated

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#director #foreigner #french #frenchman #i

Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am. ↗

— Angel Haze

#back #confidence #demanding #get #go

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#hands #least #monetary #money #over

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#although #bellows #breath #come #come and go

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#maths #sex #equality

I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock. ↗

— Anthony Head

#been #centre #couple #i #love