Thomas Gray Quotes

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Thomas Gray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 26, 1716 - July 30, 1771

Topics

EyesBestManHatOverForehead

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

Jessica Lange

StoryThinkYouActorOppositeElse

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Michael Gambon

MeTheatreGenerationDoingYouUp

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Stanley Tucci

MyselfActorFirstAlwaysConsidered

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

AloneTimeDayManYouBad

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

Tom Tancredo

ScienceGreatImaginationWords

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Tom Stoppard

IntentionBoringSeemFailing

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Josh Billings

WordsIdeasHuntingNeverSeenIdea

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

Dorothy Dix

BusyUnhappyYouPersonNeverSaw

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

Bozoma Saint John

DaughterSometimesCurseWellFront

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

Brownie McGhee

MoneyMeLongPossibleLittleTake

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

Richard Madden

GoodThinkEnoughChoosePlayKnow

You should do the sound that you want and not what others want.

Noah Cyrus

YouWantOthersSoundShould

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