H.P. Oliver Quotes

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.

The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Many are called but few get up.

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.