#lou

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous. ↗

— Max Hastings

#comedy #divine #part #play #realise

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#again #against #circumstances #day #employers

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#damaging #extreme #more #politics #ridiculous

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#animal #beauty #big #cheek #color

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#alfred hitchcock #better #better person #coach #director

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#better #feelings #honest #hurt #i