Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Hector Hugh Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916

Topics

ChristianNothingLeftNowadays

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

ChildWorldMoreKnowingDeeper

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

John Goodman

AppreciateNewNowJazzMoreStuff

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

I AmSayWouldAmBuddhist

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

John Lasseter

QueenBrotherSisterWeddingLake

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Robert Kennedy

LifeBusinessCharacterLawMedicine

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

Tom Sturridge

IntelligentRightDirectorGuyGoing

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

Roger Rosenblatt

GodBelieveCareBackWhoHis

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

Mary C. Jones

FearWhiteToysStudyRatCotton

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

Mary Pilon

RealistBooksWhoLikeReadReally

I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side.

Luis Suarez

PeopleThinkKnowAlwaysSideBeen

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

ThoughtRealityLanguageHarmony

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Chico Buarque

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