Thomas Hardy Quotes

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928

Topics

MoralsMannersArgumentOwnCustom

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.

Joe Sacco

WorkTimeShortBudgetYouDone

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

John Larroquette

TimeWifeSilenceMindMeWorld

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

Ann Hood

TimeTravelPeopleBookLearnRules

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Star Jones

PatienceCompassionCompromiseLearn

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Trey Anastasio

StepSongUnderstandHalfEffect

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

Tony Kushner

BeautyAccomplishmentBetterWayWho

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

Robin Gibb

YouBackGoFirstAlwaysSkinny

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

Roy Lichtenstein

GoodPaintingSayingEnergyBetter

You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

Mary Stuart Masterson

WomenYouPersonKnowWantRight

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Milton Glaser

GoodAmericaTalkingNewTalkBuy

I love having a shaved head. I'd rather not deal with hair if I don't have to. I like not thinking about it. A shaved head and letting my beard go requires the least amount of anything.

Chris Evans

LoveHairBeardThinkingGoHead

New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

David Shields

TechnologyVisionMeLearnNewWeb

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