T. E. Hulme Quotes
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.T. E. Hulme
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn -
Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick -
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Quintilian -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
Zac Brown Band -
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
Aristotle -
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Rene Char -
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow -
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett -
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
T. E. Hulme