H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.”
“He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.”
“He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”
Source: The Stand
“He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it”
“He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george.”
Source: Transcription
“He had a newspaper rolled in his hand, bearing down on me like a puppy that had piddled on the carpet. "Bad Chloe,” I muttered. "What?” I’d forgotten his bionic hearing. “Bad Chloe.” I gestured at the rolled-up paper and put out my hand. “Get it over with.”
“He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them.”
Source: Saint Anything
“He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.”
Source: The lightning thief
“He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e. He found things like croquet, cream teas and cricket both incomprehensible and irresistible and he would have been in his element here.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.”
“He had a pathological need to cheer her up. To make her laugh. It was not the opposite of fear but its demented companion. It was marriage.”
Source: Dream State
“He had a peanut the shape of a peanut on his back too and so was nutty through and through.”
Source: Peanut the Hamster
“He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.”
Source: Studs Lonigan
“He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?”
Source: Good Benito
“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not make it tremble a little. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
Source: Les Diaboliques
“He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.”
Source: Autobiography of Red
“He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.”
Source: Carrie's First Time
“He had a satisfying wholeness about him, American good looks like a baseball player's- level shoulders, a pale shock of hair. A good mind and ethical nature: little gave him more pleasure than learning laws and governance- "It shows you the shape of your society." But what drew the deepest sliver of her self toward him, was the weakness in his chin, his slightly disoriented air, like an injury he allowed only Avis to see. Brian was the opposite of her mother. There wasn't a whiff of mystery about him: he was solid, entirely himself. Avis still cooked in those days and she invited him to her minuscule studio. She set a hibachi up on the fire escape and grilled him a marbled, crimson rib-eye, crusty with salt and pepper, its interior brilliant with juices. Some garlicky green beans with pine nuts, rich red wine, mushrooms and onions sautéed in a nut-brown butter. She'd intuited his indifference to chocolate, so dessert was a velvety vanilla bean cake with a toasted almond frosting.”
Source: Birds of Paradise
“He had a semicircle tattoo with an indecent word on the back of his head, suggesting all people around him to leave him alone – in a much more impolite manner.”
Source: All for one
“He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]”
Source: Sailing to Sarantium
“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”
Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“He had a sensitive drained face
the face of a small boy lost on the Fairgrounds
after everyone has gone home.”
“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.”
Source: Capital
“He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote.”
Source: Only for You
“He had a smile like a hug, a kiss like a blush, and a touch like a blessing. He didn't see a whore when he looked at her. He saw Lizzie. Just Lizzie.”
Source: Crimson Footprints II New Beginnings
“He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.”
Source: The Sugar Queen
“He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.”
“He had a stiff drink and it was then that he started to think about love.”
Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
“He had a strange accent. It wasn't heavy, but it was definitely there, and I liked it. A bit husky, one of those naturally low, seductive voices that should be illegal to use on poor, unsuspecting girls in need of double-pump vanilla lattes.”
Source: Dirty Lying Sirens
“He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.”
Source: Rendezvous With Rama
“He had a talismanic obsession with final pages. At school he would near a book's conclusion, whether it was pulp science fiction or The Return of the Native, with one hand firmly clamped over the ultimate paragraph, in case his eye lit on a single word which might rob the entire story of its point, spoil the answer to the riddle of why he was reading it. When he shared this with Genevieve, she admitted to him that she always started a book by reading its final page, that she still did, but she wasn't sure why.”
Source: The Transition
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.”
“He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
“He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.”
Source: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
“He had a thousand-year-old stare.”
“He had a tongue like a razor, let us start with that. Now when you take that, and add to it eyes like a hawk, and ears like a bat, you’ve got yourself a second-to-none biographer. But add to all of that an imagination—trouble is what you’ve got then.”
Source: The Thing About Alice
“He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could've gone either way, the mob or something legitimate, and somehow ended up in the middle as a lawyer.”
Source: Pariah
“He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.”
“He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.”
“He had a way, a strange way, of making the bad days, rain and puddles and tears and all, somehow bright and brimming with joy. I told you Caspian Marks was the sun. I knew in my heart he was.”
Source: Counting Stars
“He had a way of being exactly the right amount of HERE when I needed him.”
Source: The Genesis Tree
“He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.”
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
Source: The Best of Faulkner
“He had a wrinkled, pointy face like a rubber glove puppet with the fingers drawn together.”
Source: The Prisoner of Acre
“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”
Source: Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)
“He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.”
Source: The governess
“He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.”
Source: The Etched City