Thomas Hood Quotes

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Success
  • Talent

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • May
  • More
  • Riches

• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Work
  • Just
  • Just Do It

• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  

  Lane Evans
  • World
  • Live
  • Brave

• Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Society

• Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

  

  Frances Burney

• This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Accountability

• There's no glory like those who save their country.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Country

• I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Life
  • House

• The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.

  

  Astro
  • Star

• Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Success

• In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Father
  • Past

• I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.

  

  Del Shannon
  • People

• If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Results
  • Knew
  • Sharing

• It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

  

  Alexandra Petri

• If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Prince
  • Jewels
  • Scarcity

• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Light
  • Direction
  • Promises

• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Flower
  • Bird
  • Shining