To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.
Hugh Laurie
Related Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up, BRENDA JONES God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO Hes doing better than what we thought. JAMIE KING (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser, PETER GOULD People Say falling in Love is the result of not getting enough Love from home; but the truth is, you... ALEN THOMAS When you reach a point in your life and you know you want to meet someone who shares your religious ... GAIL LAGUNA My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ... JUDY SMITH One of the greatest reliefs in life is telling the truth to someone that you had lied to. KURT KROHN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, on... DAN SAVAGE If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in th... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD Some people want to believe they can be an instant hero in eveyday life. A real hero is someone that... JOSé N. HARRIS Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much... VERONICA LAPPAY Love is spending the rest of your life with someone you want to kill & not doing it because you'd mi... SOMEECARDS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entir... SHANNON L. ALDER Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you sto... STEVE MARABOLI A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y... IAN PHILPOT When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. ~Maya Angelou Remember th... OPRAH WINFREY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality tha... GEORGE CLOONEY "Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you... STEVE MARABOLI Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you sto... STEVE MARABOLI In life, you shall meet a person who is so much like you. You will have so much love and respect tha... SASHIL KUMAR To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become full... DEBBIE FORD Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures,... JEROME K. JEROME People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is ... RICHIE NORTON Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire some... DEMI LOVATO The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love. KIRAN JOSHI The feeling of someone telling you the truth invites trust into your heart, but if someone tells you... GARY F EVANS... Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish ... ENID BLYTON Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family... LEMONY SNICKET One day someone will fall in love with you despite all your flaws! Then magic will happen in your li... AVIJEET DAS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your lif... JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's ... PHILIP K. DICK In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him ... ANDREW SOLOMON This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l... SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ The worst thing about someone not telling you the truth, is knowing you weren't worth the truth. BJ MORIN Think twice or more before you start doing something for someone, it may be a good thing what you wa... NISHI DE SILVA One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do ... LEMONY SNICKET If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. PRINCESS DIANA If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your yea... STEVE MARABOLI Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN Sometimes I think I spent forever waiting for you,' he says. 'My whole life, I've never had someone ... AMANDA GRACE What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, ... JAMES A. MURPHY When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI If someone likes you; they'll want to meet your family, and if they love you; they'll want to become... NICHOLAS A. FERRONI If you don’t take full control of your life someone or fate will. STEVEN REDHEAD You will never be able to see clearly when people around you distort your view of truth with their o... SHANNON L. ALDER You are charming. Your charm, just like your ability to live happily and be successful is beyond a l... ANE KRSTEVSKA How would your life be different if...You didn’t wait for someone else to fix a problem or social ... STEVE MARABOLI Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA You always try - you always serve the truth. But again - but the truth is often, you know, is often ... JOHN SCANLON We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. ... DEB CALETTI Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME You're not even happy. You're throwing away your own life because you love someone who's not here an... DAN WELLS When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it'... BRUCE WILLIS If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, ... SHANNON L. ALDER We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may sav... JIM VALVANO Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of t... CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D. Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad... JOHN MCAFEE I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relations... ED SHEERAN A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut... JOEL OSTEEN Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousnes... JOSEPH CAMPBELL It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take... PATRICIA BRIGGS This is hard to believe, but someone near to you may unconsciously want to destroy your life, so tha... DR HITESH C SHETH Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Your life is not a flip of a coin, so don’t conduct your decision making in this manner. Do you re... SCOTTIE SOMERS Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac... ANNE LAMOTT A hero you are, through and though; your inspiration to me, is true and true. I wish a life here, of... SCOTTIE SOMERS if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not,... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci... GEOFFREY F. ABERT When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or soci... ABERT F. GEOFFREY What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN When you are not happy in your life, love or job then when NOW is the time to change your course in ... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD If you find someone that you think is your soul-mate, someone you could potentially spend the rest o... ELVIRA KURT You could say that life just happens and it's the way it goes, you either accept it or you fight it.... NIKKI ROWE If your instinct is that someone is not good in your life, then you should follow that instinct. MARLA PAUL Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ... BUTCH HANCOCK
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It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. HUGH LAURIE As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we... HUGH LAURIE 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 It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act... HUGH LAURIE 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 I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a... HUGH LAURIE I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o... HUGH LAURIE The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe... 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HUGH LAURIE We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. ... HUGH LAURIE When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song... HUGH LAURIE I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. HUGH LAURIE Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players,... HUGH LAURIE It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed... HUGH LAURIE I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surrou... HUGH LAURIE Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human ... HUGH LAURIE I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for... 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LAURIE COLWIN Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even ver... LAURIE COLWIN The sharing of food is the basis of social life. LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen... LAURIE COLWIN We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living. LAURIE COLWIN We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at ... LAURIE COLWIN I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare... LAURIE ANDERSON I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are cha... LAURIE GRAHAM Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me ab... LAURIE PENNY Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs. 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LAURIE METCALF I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The... LAURIE GRAHAM I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn... LAURIE LEE 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more import... LAURIE GARRETT I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. LAURIE METCALF The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge o... LAURIE GRAHAM The big issue would be if there was illegally obtained evidence. It could lead to motions for new tr... LAURIE LEVENSON I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can&... LAURIE HOLDEN I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ... LAURIE HOLDEN Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and ble... LAURIE GARRETT Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interact... LAURIE HELGOE And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart. PIPER LAURIE One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more. PIPER LAURIE Instead of changing my name, I would change Piper Laurie. That was the beginning. PIPER LAURIE But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique ... PIPER LAURIE She hit the ball well. Jennifer Hecht served well to keep her in the front row to get all those kill... LAURIE GLASS When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher ... LAURIE HOLDEN I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of ... LAURIE GRAHAM I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of... LAURIE GRAHAM My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. LAURIE METCALF Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can ... LAURIE SABOURIN He's a curmudgeon - even at his own premiere. LAURIE DAVID Courts don't want to invade the deliberative process. We favor finality, and we don't want to send a... LAURIE LEVENSON We've sweetened them up considerably. They have a lot more sugar and flavor in them than the traditi... LAURIE STEED When you serve well, everything else follows. Good serving sets the stage and everybody starts servi... LAURIE NELSON He's our first small dog. He's broadened my horizons, and I just want to broaden his. It's been an a... LAURIE ALDRICH Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug... LAURIE ANDERSON The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. LAURIE NADEL The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill... LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen... LAURIE COLWIN You score three times inside the first 30 (minutes) and the bonus point is there for the grab. We ju... LAURIE FISHER Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead ... LAURIE STILLMAN I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent. LAURIE TAYLOR I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n... PIPER LAURIE All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki... LAURIE LEE When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A... LAURIE ANDERSON I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. PIPER LAURIE The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions. LAURIE ZOLOTH I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ... LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! LAURIE STRONGIN