#thing

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#approaching #been #big #big city #city

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#appeal #begun #form #great #had

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#anything #before #blake #books #died

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife. ↗

— Allan Houston

#child #comes #else #everything #first

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#like #night #one thing #only #people

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#cold #friendship #get #may #most

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#everything #finding #locked #locked up #man

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#neglecting #people #something #trying

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#expect #hope #known #nothing #should