#wat

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cats #compelled #conclusion #dogs #draw

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#desserts #fine #good #got #harm

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arm #attitude #clinic #feel #feels

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den. ↗

— Morris Hite

#den #kitchen #local #man #national

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#cecil #first #i #i remember #i think

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#building #did #guy #him #i

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk. ↗

— Katie Hoff

#form #i #like #perfect #pole

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#idea #into #mediocrity #original #original idea

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#afterwards #anything #hard #really #then