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Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Rain Day Gardening I Am Wind Gate

My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry of interlocking lulling parts.

Andrew Bird

Create Want Kind Head Patterns Full

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.

Andie MacDowell

Work Education Great People Me You

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Spirit More Her Role Like

So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress.

John Murray

Work People Stand Up Stand Living

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

John Lasseter

Art Me Control Someone You Timing

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Marriage Community Master Mistress

The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.

Simon McBurney

Brain Control Questions You Look Us

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Toussaint Louverture

Mother Vices Sloth Avoid

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Rita Moreno

Coffee Happy Roses You Smell Makes

My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Resolution Data Powerful Will Exist

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

Art Perception Color Never Seen

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

Jonathan Franklin

War Back Down Want Deserve Never