#hem

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#born #mediocre #mediocrity #men #some

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them. ↗

— Anna Held

#difficult #here #home #i #milk

Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you. ↗

— Anna Held

#look #presence #soon #them #you

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#america #considered #dwell #heads #keep

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them. ↗

— Richard Hell

#cream #crop #everybody #existing #i

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch-22 #crazy #flew #fly #had

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#any #arranged #collected #could #delay

Drums usually seem to tune themselves. ↗

— Levon Helm

#seem #themselves #tune #usually

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#call #discovering #faculty #innate #laws

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#appeared #constant #earlier #forms #heat