#mean

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#actress #am #because #chance #could

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#consistent #contradict #honestly #mean #more

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#anything #glories #means #output #public

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#guitar #i #kind #licks #lot

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#every #line #meaning #story #tells

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#each #know #knowing #love #loving

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#dead #delayed #direct #i #living

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#come #disappear #each #every #gets