Sydney J. Harris Quotes

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Topics

LifeI AmLife Is HardAskHardAm

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

Andy Warhol

ArtBetterStreetAlwaysSeeMine

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.

John Rhys-Davies

DreamsTimeQualityVillainThink

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

Steven Moffat

GoodPeopleWritingBrandEasyYou

The thing about racing that appeals to me is your destiny is in your own hands at that moment.

Robert Carradine

MomentMeDestinyRacingHandsOwn

'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.

Mike Gallagher

PeopleTryingCryUpTortureWho

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

Michael Winter

WifeSayingFishHouseDownThree

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

Michael Pollan

LifeCultureExperienceQualitySee

It is impossible to please all the world.

Louis XIV

WorldImpossiblePleaseAll The World

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

Liz Williams

ModernShapedAnyDiverseAuthors

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

Janine di Giovanni

KnowledgeChildParentsMindWorld

I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.

Jorja Smith

FunAmericaWatchUsedRouteAbout

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

Denis Leary

FunYouEnemiesHadNo Fun

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