Thomas Hardy Quotes

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Thomas Hardy

Quotes to Explore

My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge
- Life
- Mother
- Morning
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- Good
- Know
- Best
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Patrick Warburton
- Family
- Support
- Doing
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.

Nancy Gibbs
- Man
- Interesting
- Politics
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor
- People
- Success
- Bored
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Salman Rushdie
- Writing
- Deal
- Islam