Thomas Hardy Quotes

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Thomas Hardy

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • May
  • American

• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Space
  • Fall

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Water

• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Up
  • Young
  • Soccer

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • You
  • Strategy

• Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Long
  • Mother

• And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Girl

• Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.

  

  Eminem
  • Word
  • Get
  • Prick

• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • May
  • Help

• Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People

• I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.

  

  Bob Beckel

• The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

  

  John Cleese
  • Good
  • Long
  • Interesting

• When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

  

  Future
  • Pain
  • Rap
  • Auto

• In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Life
  • God
  • Light

• How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Experience
  • Atheist

• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Pain
  • Tales
  • Moods