Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Hope
• Sleep
• Sorrow
• Meeting

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• Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

  

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• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

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• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

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• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

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• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

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• Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

  

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• Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

  

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• I think we're a working man's band.

  

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• It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.

  

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• I have a team around me to support me.

  

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• I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

  

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• James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

  

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• I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

  

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• When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

  

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• Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

  

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• Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.

  

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• I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Hope
  • Sleep
  • Sorrow