H.P. Oliver Quotes
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.
I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.
After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.
After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.