#bit

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. ↗

— Dee Hock

#another #becomes #centuries #country #culture

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? ↗

— David Hockney

#anyway #art #art world #bit #edge

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. ↗

— David Hockney

#designs #fiddle #i #nights #obsessive

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. ↗

— David Hockney

#claustrophobic #come #crowds #house #i

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. ↗

— David Hockney

#claustrophobic #i #know #now

I'm a bit of a propagandist. ↗

— David Hockney

#i #propagandist

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. ↗

— David Hockney

#bit #channels #collage #different #everyone

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#boot #feeds #hand #kicks #lick