Thomas Hood Quotes

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Name
  • Partner

• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Style
  • Everyone
  • Extremist

• I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Own

• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Death
  • Day
  • Daily

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Try

• I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Religion
  • Christians
  • Jews

• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Mother
  • Football
  • Player

• If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Shoes

• I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Know
  • See
  • Questions

• With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Different

• Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Art
  • Simple

• Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Think
  • Star
  • Wishing

• I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • People
  • Respect
  • Always

• There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Joy
  • Fair
  • Useful

• The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Past
  • Regret
  • Denial

• The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Social
  • Crush
  • Wit

• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Teach
  • Creatures
  • Honey

• I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Soul

• Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Social
  • Honey
  • Bees