Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

Topics

HappinessWorldFindNeverFollow

I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

John Carpenter

TimeLongLong TimeHorrorDirector

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.

Robert J. Sawyer

FatherScienceProgressMePhysics

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Robert Mondavi

BeginningManWineBeenCivilized

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

Andy Hertzfeld

WorkEmpathyPeopleWritingKeyYou

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Michael Birch

DayMindGameComputersThinking

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

Stephen Lang

WorkTimeYourselfIdentityEnough

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

BusinessBestRedBetterLearnDone

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

Shiri Appleby

CrazyWorldThinkProcessTelevision

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Robin Morgan

FreedomSomethingContagiousAbout

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

Ron Johnson

SuccessPoliticalDoingAgainstFar

I love hand-drawn animation, but I have to say I have fallen in love with CG animation. What you can do in terms of visuals is pretty stunning, and I think if I did go back and do a hand-drawn animation, I would want to make sure that, from a stylistic standpoint, it would be as beautiful as 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at least!

Roy Conli

LoveBeautifulThinkYouBackWant

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't receive benefits.

Mick Mulvaney

BudgetLookWashingtonSideAffect

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