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 went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • School
  • Military
  • Army

• When I was a baby, I wore my mom's Chanel pumps - to be able to say that I work with Karl Lagerfeld is a dream come true.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Work
  • True
  • Dream

• Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

  

  David Hare
  • World
  • Job
  • Earth

• Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist

• 'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I've just admired for so many years.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Work
  • Women
  • Dream

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

  

  Ted Hughes