T. E. Hulme Quotes

The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

T. E. Hulme

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• I'm high energy.

  

  Karl Urban
  • High
  • Energy
  • High Energy

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Along with 'Free,' where I sing quite a bit, there are additional songs on 'Skin' where you can hear my voice in the background - lots of 'oohs' and 'aahs.' But more often than not, I use my vocals to prompt other rappers and singers to feel calmer, better, bolder.

  

  Flume
  • Free
  • Better
  • Voice

• I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Mirrors

• Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Snow
  • Forest
  • Tourism

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Way
  • English
  • Language

• Money often costs too much.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Often

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • You

• Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Why
  • Look
  • Clothes

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Life Is A

• My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Character
  • Think
  • Politics

• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Father
  • Political
  • Air

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Love

• I made a choice in my career to not get hair plugs and not hide the fact that I was balding, and I've managed to play all sorts of characters who have shaved heads.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • Career
  • Hair

• I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Remember

• Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Together
  • Alone

• There is a natural physiological tendency to pronounce in one breath successive groups of rhythmic feet, and the rhythmic content in the average length of breathing can only be called a verse.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Rhythm
  • Rhythmic Feet
  • Rhythmic Content

• Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Play
  • Matter
  • Notes

• The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

  

  T. E. Hulme