"Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp. How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?" — Rita Hayworth, American actress, born 1918
"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes." — Rita Hayworth, American actress, born 1918
"What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed." — Rita Hayworth, American actress, born 1918
"I would begin with the Greek word omphalos, meaning the navel, and hence the stone that marked the center of the world, and repeat it. omphalos, omphalos, omphalos, until its blunt and falling music becomes the music of somebody pumping water outside our back door." — Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, born 1939
"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew." — Anthony Hecht, American poet, born 1923
"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice." — Anthony Hecht, American poet, born 1923
"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden." — Anthony Hecht, American poet, born 1923
"Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself." — Georg Wilhelm Hegel, German philosopher, born 1770
"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it." — Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist, born 1901
"Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatever you wish." — Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist, born 1901
"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet." — Anna Held, Polish-American actress, born 1872
"No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere." — Anna Held, Polish-American actress, born 1872