Edward Hook quote: "It's like going to buy potato chips at the store. You've got 50 different kinds to buy, and if your favorite brand isn't there you pick another,"

One of the great misconceptions is that people who have STDs know they have them, ... That is absolu...
EDWARD HOOK

We use them every day,
EDWARD HOOK

Both doctors and patients are waiting for the other person to raise the subject and as a result nobo...
EDWARD HOOK

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation...
HAROLD HOOK

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose...
DR. HOOK

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes...
PETER HOOK

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
SIDNEY HOOK

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; cap...
SIDNEY HOOK

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
SIDNEY HOOK

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
SIDNEY HOOK

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his ...
SIDNEY HOOK

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SIDNEY HOOK

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human valu...
SIDNEY HOOK

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...
SIDNEY HOOK

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
SIDNEY HOOK

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
SIDNEY HOOK

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out a...
PETER HOOK

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I...
PETER HOOK

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influe...
PETER HOOK

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'
PETER HOOK

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division toget...
PETER HOOK

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
THEODORE HOOK

A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by l...
THEODORE HOOK

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
PETER HOOK

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
PETER HOOK

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not...
PETER HOOK

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic en...
PETER HOOK

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner'...
PETER HOOK

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
PETER HOOK

We're still working on it. We've just been on a mammoth hunt for a singer. Because of the singers th...
PETER HOOK

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; cap...
SIDNEY HOOK

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that th...
PETER HOOK

I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along ...
PETER HOOK

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.
PETER HOOK

Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out the...
PETER HOOK

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the firs...
PETER HOOK

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely ...
PETER HOOK

Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little ...
PETER HOOK

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of th...
PETER HOOK

I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an...
PETER HOOK

My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
PETER HOOK

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
PETER HOOK

I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's ...
PETER HOOK

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his argu...
SIDNEY HOOK

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant
SIDNEY HOOK

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recogniza...
SIDNEY HOOK

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the ...
PETER HOOK

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to ...
PETER HOOK

Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he...
PETER HOOK

For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in thr...
PETER HOOK

There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
PETER HOOK

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn...
PETER HOOK

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're y...
PETER HOOK

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done a...
PETER HOOK

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
PETER HOOK

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No ...
PETER HOOK

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitut...
SIDNEY HOOK

Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot...
DONNIE VAN HOOK

It's almost like an academy.
DONNIE VAN HOOK

My foray into the world of adults had taught me that very few people are willing to tell you the tru...
TINA L. HOOK

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

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

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG

One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON

The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY

For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER

Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY

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