#quite

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #been #bring #drive #family

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. ↗

— David Hockney

#dramatic #quite #things #west #yorkshire

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #been #conscientious #front #got

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper. ↗

— John Hull

#different #fairly #few #first #had

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. ↗

— John Hume

#also #awful #bit #curriculum #everybody

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years. ↗

— John Hume

#days #general #get #had #investment

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#cold #cold war #doctrine #europe #expanded

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#because #cry #grown #grown men #i

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#courage

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#punishment #unrequited-love #love