Quotations

"Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourselves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea."

— Donald Hall, American poet, born 1928

"My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit."

— Jerry Hall, American model, born 1956

"The head of the photographer is more important than his camera."

— Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer, born 1906

"Revealing character can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice."

— Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer, born 1906

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

— Scott Hamilton, American figure skater, born 1958

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team. I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

— Mia Hamm, American soccer player, born 1972

"Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust."

— Patricia Hampl, American educator, born 1946

"Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands."

— Lionel Hampton, American pianist, born 1908

"The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart."

— Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, born 1859

"I thought I saw the face of God."

— George Frideric Handel, German-English composer, born 1685

"I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me."

— George Frideric Handel, German-English composer, born 1685

"If you know how to suffer, you will suffer less."

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, born 1926

"The next Buddha will be named Maitreya, the "Buddha of Love." I think Maitreya Buddha may be a community and not just an individual."

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, born 1926

"Every time I turn on the water tap, I practice mindfulness and I see that the water that flows through my fingers is a miracle."

— Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, born 1926