Thomas Hood Quotes
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Thomas Hood
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
Mandy Patinkin
If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
Lana Turner
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
Felix Frankfurter
The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.
Patrick White
’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
Arthur Hugh Clough
This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.
Jimmy Carter
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey
I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.
Lin Yutang
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
Charles Evers
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
Charles B. Rangel
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
I hate auditions.
Andie MacDowell
I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.
Kurt Sutter
Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.
Jim Gaffigan
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
Joel Barlow
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Thomas Hood
