Thomas Hardy Quotes

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Thomas Hardy

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• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Singer

• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Real
  • motivation
  • Obsession

• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Man
  • Year
  • Over

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Dreamer

• In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Tree
  • Granted

• There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Thinking
  • Shopping
  • Quit

• John Wick does different techniques. Everything is available to him. There isn't one way of working a weapon. I like the reload with the flick going outside. That movement of getting rid of the magazine is to go sideways with it.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Outside
  • Weapon

• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Picture

• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Opinion

• The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

  Eugene Simon
  • Learn
  • Aspiration
  • Deed

• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Pleasure
  • Neurotic
  • Narcissism

• I've got a certain derring-do about me. I'm an explorer for the truth in a jungle of political overgrowth.

  

  Gatewood Galbraith
  • Truth
  • Political
  • Jungle

• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • World
  • Art
  • Drawing

• Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Knowing
  • Felt
  • Distressed