#dies

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them. ↗

— Julie Harris

#around #bit #both #clothes #ladies

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#bear #better #bodies #breasts #children

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. ↗

— Anne Heche

#grow #important #looking #loving #makes

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#conflicts #genuine #right #right and wrong #rights

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#also #bar #blows #bodies #case

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#assault #before #bodies #clear #enemy

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#archaic #badly #become #before #call