Hoot Quotes

• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Men

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Winning, Men

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

  David Hyde Pierce

  People, Tire, Ifs

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• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Thinking, Giving

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• When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.

  Black Hawk

  War, Home, Men

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• The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Real, Chimneys

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

  William Kennedy

  Hallelujah, Walks

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• It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Journey, Hiking, Fame

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• I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

  George S. Patton

  Wrestling, Men, Giving

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Heart, Brain, Different

  Carl Hiaasen (2002). “Hoot”, p.160, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "I've always been the outsider" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2008.

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• You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Eagles, Owl, Soar

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• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Believe

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• The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Owl, Spirit, Wonder

  "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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• Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.

  James Mattis

  Fun, Fighting, Hell

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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• The significant owl hoots in the night.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Owl, Significant

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.7, Random House

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• Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Names, Dumb

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• Im a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  Xosha Roquemore

  Thinking, Half

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• I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly and absurdly - to him is, are you living the kind of life that I embodied? Whether you believe in Christ or don't, who cares?

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Thinking, What Matters

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.

  Eric Weiner

  Religious, Thinking, People

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• Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

  Austin O'Malley

  Prayer, Dark, Night

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• All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose - a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

  George C. Scott

  Horse, Real, War

  "Fictional character: General George S. Patton". "Patton", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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