#elle

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. ↗

— Dave Heineman

#excellence #future #guarantee #i #our

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#always #intellectual #side #something #suspect

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#because #came #challenging #drunks #energy

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#because #bit #crazy #delicate #going

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#alone #always #attainment #envied #genius

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#intellects #outstripped #their #understanding #whose

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that. ↗

— Anne Heche

#come #ellen #gonna #honestly #i

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley. ↗

— Anne Heche

#divorce #ellen #i #i believe #less