T. E. Hulme Quotes

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

T. E. Hulme

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• People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Culture
  • Hate

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • True
  • Mother

• A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Man
  • Living
  • Go

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Cool
  • Win

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• There are no tough guys in wrestling.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Guys
  • Wrestling
  • Tough

• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Rest

• 'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Long
  • City

• The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Progress

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Oh, but I've done some other unforgivable, unspeakable thing'? Google it. There's seven billion of us. Somebody has done exactly what you have done, and is currently on a book tour. You're never alone!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Done
  • Book
  • Alone

• Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Time
  • Door

• My dad was 32 in college, and my brother wore 32 in college. So I'm just going to stick with it.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Dad
  • College
  • Brother

• I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Believe
  • Strong

• When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Imagination

• Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Men

• I just eat life... I engage in life.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Life
  • Engage

• If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Writing
  • Weekend
  • Benefits

• Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• I wasn't even born when dad swam in the Olympics. I've seen videos of some of his swims, although I don't think I've ever seen him in the Olympics. He's been a massive support right through my career, and it's good to have someone so close to talk to who knows all about what it's like to compete in an Olympic Games.

  

  Aimee Willmott
  • Good
  • Career
  • Support

• Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

  

  T. E. Hulme