H.P. Oliver Quotes

Those who think must govern those that toil.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

I like the effect drink has on me.

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

The Negro was invented in America.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.