Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors...
HUGH HOPPER Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have in...
HUGH HOPPER Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact wi...
HUGH HOPPER I really don't have a shopping list of musicians. You can never tell who is going to spark off that ...
HUGH HOPPER Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if...
HUGH HOPPER Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, ori...
HUGH HOPPER If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
HEDDA HOPPER You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more in...
EDWARD HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE HOPPER If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER They recognize that the worst way to punish them is to kick them out of school.
ALLEN HOPPER If the 9th Circuit says, 'The sky is blue,' they ( the Supreme Court ) would want to review the deci...
ALLEN HOPPER The White House wants California to march in lockstep with its misguided prohibition of medical mari...
ALLEN HOPPER I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue s...
ALLEN HOPPER Here you have police officers on the front line whose reputations have been horribly tarnished, if n...
ALLEN HOPPER I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwill...
EDWARD HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get per...
GRACE HOPPER Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly ...
EDWARD HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER I had final cut, and I cut my own throat.
DENNIS HOPPER To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
DENNIS HOPPER He's simply the best, and if he wants to call acting merely a craft, then he's the greatest craftsma...
DENNIS HOPPER I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused,
DENNIS HOPPER I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, ...
DENNIS HOPPER In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of th...
DENNIS HOPPER I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.
DENNIS HOPPER I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
HEDDA HOPPER Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independen...
DENNIS HOPPER I live in a city that is billboards. Billboards and graffiti.
DENNIS HOPPER I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
EDWARD HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, '...
GRACE HOPPER She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
HEDDA HOPPER At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money an...
HEDDA HOPPER [Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis...
DENNIS HOPPER Our intent is not vindictiveness. Something has to be done.
GARY HOPPER In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
HEDDA HOPPER He's got a pretty even temperament. He doesn't get too upset if things aren't going his way. Even if...
EDDIE HOPPER 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was ...
DENNIS HOPPER My crew and I airlifted nearly 100 people from the roof of a building and onto a field where ambulan...
DAVID HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE HOPPER We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurri...
JOHN HOPPER because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world...
DENNIS HOPPER People would be surprised to know that,
DENNIS HOPPER The Crow: Wicked Prayer
DENNIS HOPPER He's a smooth, cool, intelligent actor who loves to work.
DENNIS HOPPER You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photog...
DENNIS HOPPER We hope the city defendants, especially Mayor Wilder, will use this as an opportunity to take the le...
DAVID HOPPER We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, ...
DAVID HOPPER It's rewarding to help our fellow Americans, ... The crew knows that these people don't have a home ...
DAVID HOPPER We've got to tackle better. We've got to get first downs. We can't give the ball to them on the 50-y...
DAVID HOPPER The Kiwanis does worldwide community service and our little local club decided to do our share. We s...
DAVID HOPPER A group of smaller local sponsors, racers and interested parties got together in June and decided to...
LARRY HOPPER When he makes a bogey, 75 percent of the time it's not because he hit a bad shot; it's due to three-...
EDDIE HOPPER He's got pretty long ball off the tee. He's learned to hit those short wedges in there. He's good at...
EDDIE HOPPER With the Navy's presence, there will be no doubt about what the venue represents.
LARRY HOPPER Without the volunteers, World Care doesn't exist.
LISA HOPPER Fifty thousand would make a huge impact.
LISA HOPPER While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
HENRY HOPPER We do not believe that Mike's conduct during the tournament appropriately represents the deep-seated...
RANDY HOPPER I knew if we kept it close, we had a shot. Our kids have a tremendous amount of heart. We don't quit...
TONY HOPPER At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I pl...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn in...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for i...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanos...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things; you lead people
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for o...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "Wha...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way".
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, 'Information'; for in ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional...
M. REED HOPPER Anywhere water flows is a tributary in their book.
M. REED HOPPER We're a bit surprised the court took this case, but we have a new court with Judge Roberts.
M. REED HOPPER We're ecstatic. He's the ultimate folk hero, standing up to the government over a matter of principl...
M. REED HOPPER Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
HUGH HEFNER I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ...
HUGH JACKMAN There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;...
HUGH JACKMAN I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It d...
HUGH JACKMAN I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and reali...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a loner at all.
HUGH JACKMAN In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy...
HUGH JACKMAN Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
HUGH JACKMAN With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of...
HUGH JACKMAN Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
HUGH JACKMAN My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I t...
HUGH JACKMAN To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
HUGH JACKMAN I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i...
HUGH JACKMAN To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
HUGH JACKMAN It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro...
HUGH HEFNER I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
HUGH HEFNER As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, w...
HUGH HEFNER I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the upri...
HUGH MASEKELA History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs....
HUGH EVANS I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT Love expands.
HUGH PRATHER Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen...
HUGH EVANS I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and ...
HUGH HEFNER Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
HUGH HEFNER A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
HUGH PRATHER There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...
HUGH DOWNS If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR Beauty is whatever gives joy.
HUGH NIBLEY Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets...
HUGH JACKMAN I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w...
HUGH JACKMAN If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE