T. E. Hulme Quotes
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
-
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
-
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
-
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
-
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
-
The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
-
After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
-
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
-
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
-
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
-
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
-
I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
-
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
-
I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
-
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
-
Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
-
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
-
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
-
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
-
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
