Thomas Edward Brown Quotes

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Thomas Edward Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897

Topics

PatienceMotherFutureMeSweetOld

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John L. Phillips

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I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.

Rutger Hauer

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On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.

Mary Kay Andrews

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I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

Mila Kunis

PerfectionYou Can Do ItBelieveYou

It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

Mike Colter

CharacterFunRulesPlayAlways

I've been in big clubs, but I want to achieve titles with Valencia.

Michy Batshuayi

AchieveWantBigTitlesBeenClubs

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

Jarvis Cocker

TimeYourselfFeelAttentionYou

I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.

Cliff Martinez

CopyWhyMeanHardUpSeem

You never sit on your laurels. It is always a case of trying to work on your deficiencies as much as working on your strengths.

Brian O'Driscoll

WorkTryingYouNeverAlwaysSit

I am not as knowledgeable about the struggle for gay rights, for our history, the way some of my castmates or other gay men I know are.

Antoni Porowski

HistoryStruggleMenI AmGayKnow

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Paul Tillich

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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

Paul Watson

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