Thomas Hood Quotes

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

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• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Freedom
  • Struggle
  • Product

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Myself
  • Anything
  • Marxist

• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• I have a strong affinity for animals.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Strong
  • Animals
  • Affinity

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Group

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Know
  • Internet
  • Holy

• I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Weird

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power

• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  

  George Washington
  • Reason
  • Inexperience

• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Career
  • Funny

• Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • May
  • Water
  • Doe

• O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Mother
  • Sister
  • Creatures