#ay

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. ↗

— Alger Hiss

#amazed #chambers #day #die #got

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#ankles #good-looking #knees #nearly #neat

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#audience #make #much #possible #suffer

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#clean #difficult #films #how #i

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #burning #candle #denial #ends

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#arrive #being #border #canada #gay

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#gay #lot #macho #men #super

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #could #deadline #fabulous #first

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case