Edward Thomas Quotes
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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What you see is what you get.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.
