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

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• 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

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• 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

• The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.

  

  Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Harmony
  • Camera
  • Accomplish

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

  

  Saigyō
  • Tree
  • Flower

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

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Flower
  • Bird
  • Shining