Thomas Hood Quotes
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Thomas Hood
Quotes to Explore
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
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All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
Lou Holtz
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.
Kabir Bedi
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
Jeff Long
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
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Reason is the slave of passion.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.
Allen Toussaint
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But fish not with this melancholy bait
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
William Shakespeare
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How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?
William Wilberforce
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily Dickinson
