H.B. Ida Quotes

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

Life is but a collection of habits.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Wild women don't get the blues.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

There is never enough time for fun.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

In the UK, everything is a bit older and a bit more worn-out, and the people are a bit more tired. You know. I think Americans are a bit looser, a bit more out to have a fun time.

It's the best thing in the world to be onstage, but not when you can barely stand up.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

When lion saddled for hunt, he outfitted by bow and arrow to guard himself

I pretend he doesn’t exist, and he does the same with me.

Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear the best way is to do them in their proper time.

I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.

I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me.

Which one is right? Which one is wrong? When you feel you could answer that type of questions, you trapped on your own perception. -Back cover, Andante Part 1, English modified-

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

We look for pretty girls we can say bad things to. No one shows up.

I don’t care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.

Nothing happens. And by that I mean nothing.