Thomas Hood Quotes

My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Important
  • Water
  • Serious

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
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• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • Know
  • Changes

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Success
  • Learning

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • House
  • Always

• I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Career
  • Death

• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • World
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I'll cut grass.

  

  Patty Loveless

• I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it, and go on to the next thing.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Heart

• I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

  

  Krista Allen
  • Movie
  • Faith

• I'm always proud of what I've done and what I continue to do.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Done
  • Proud

• It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • Flying

• I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Music
  • Country
  • Style

• I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

  

  Pete Waterman

• If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

  

  Eric Church
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

  

  Mitchel Resnick
  • People
  • Writing
  • Today

• My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Writing
  • Brain
  • Verses