Quotations

"Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them, even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world."

— Goldie Hawn, American actress, born 1945

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

— Goldie Hawn, American actress, born 1945

"To the untrue man, the whole universe is false– it is impalpable– it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author, born 1804

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author, born 1804

"The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author, born 1804

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so at the moment after death."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author, born July 4, 1804

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author, born 1804

"What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?"

— Robert Hayden, American poet, born 1913

"Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness, and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror, and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing, and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning, and blackness ahead."

— Robert Hayden, American poet, born 1913

"Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen."

— Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, born 1966

"People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

— Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, born 1966

"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

— Helen Hayes, American actress, born 1900

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

— Helen Hayes, American actress, born 1900

"The good die young—but not always. The wicked prevail—but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theater."

— Helen Hayes, American actress, born 1900