Ted Hughes Quotes

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

Ted Hughes

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• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dawn

• I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Women
  • Think
  • Model

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Weird

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Catholic
  • Very

• It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Hard
  • Year

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Context

• Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Anything
  • Got
  • Pig

• Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Cooking
  • Depth

• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Star

• I always breathe cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Breathe
  • Cricket

• 'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Simple

• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Wisdom
  • Clever

• If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

• And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• 'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Action

• I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• It's very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like 'MyMusic.' It's really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom.

  

  Benny Fine
  • Future
  • Study

• She worked very hard to get the support and the money so these organizations could function, ... She impressed me the first time I ever met her.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Money
  • Support
  • Function

• It's really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just 'cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn't have to be an insult or a slight to the band you've been with for a long time.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Long
  • Important

• Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

  

  Socrates
  • Live
  • Body
  • Knows

• The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

  

  Ted Hughes