William Hope Hodgson Quotes
The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
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I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.
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You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.
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You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
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The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!
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When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.
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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
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Woe to that land that's governed by a child.
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What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.
