T. E. Hulme Quotes
If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.
Quotes to Explore
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
-
My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
-
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
-
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
-
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
-
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
-
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
-
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
-
To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
-
I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
My job is to get things done.
-
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
-
You're not going to live your life unscathed.
-
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
-
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
-
If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.
