Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Hector Hugh Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveGoodSoulManMeUnhappy

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

John Howe

WorkIdeasYouSometimesYearsTake

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

John Shelton Reed

YouKnowWhyMeanWriteBoundaries

I love to clean. I love to cook.

Monica Potter

LoveCleanCookI Love

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

Josh Hawley

ConstitutionDutyDefendLawsState

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Brian De Palma

DreamsGirlTimeMeStrongYou

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

Brett Ratner

ExperienceLearnBecauseDifferent

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

Arundhati Roy

PeopleThinkYouIndiaAfricaOver

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.

Prince Harry

MotherDayWishWonderNowKind

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

Peter Morgan

ColdThinkInterestingPlaceAlways

If immigration reform doesn't happen, that doesn't say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn't pass it.

Pete Gallego

GoodDemocracyGood ThingsSayPass

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Paul Theroux

PatienceAloneFoodTravelI AmMe

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Scott Stossel

AnxietySometimesBandSheStage

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