Edward Thomas Quotes

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Earth
  • Miracle
  • Face

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm much more shy than most of my family.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Family
  • Most
  • Shy

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Control

• Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Stop
  • Blood

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Always
  • Teenager

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Bearer

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Fire
  • Coward

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Myself
  • Air

• Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

  

  Eric Bentley
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Elevates

• I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Drunk
  • Champagne

• As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Flower
  • Prove
  • Losing