#si

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bacon #because #being #best #francis

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#because #fifteen #had #i #musician

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#far #germany #know #korea #north

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#audience #make #much #possible #suffer

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#bent #claimed #deceived #dupes #men

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#gay #lot #macho #men #super

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#life #make #only #over #physically

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#deceased #empire #ghost #grave #other