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
  • Women
  • Live

• 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

• When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

  

  William Gurnall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• In the end, I do not think we will find the neat boundary between 'normal sadness' and 'clinical depression,' if only because mood is an innate human characteristic, like weight or the length of our hair. However, to reject the very notion of depression as an illness on account of these difficulties is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Water
  • Hair
  • Baby

• 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