Henry David Thoreau Quotes

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

SpeakYouDoneWillNeverWrite

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Joe Wurzelbacher

FireConstitutionFeetLearnSomeone

I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

ThinkWineYouWhiteYoungLike

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

Stephen R. George

WritingImpactGotQuiteTeenager

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

Stanley Tucci

HopePeopleSmallMoviesLivingBig

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Steve Martin

ThinkNothingOutPrettyStarted

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

Tom Vilsack

HomeHealthMoneyQualitySupport

I respect television in a way that some people who came out of film might not.

Joss Whedon

RespectPeopleTelevisionWayOut

When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct: it's a lack of opportunities and access for women to direct and be supported in that.

Ava DuVernay

WomenOpportunitiesSayWhoDirect

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Philip Treacy

HatSunHatsCelebritySheImage

I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.

Syd

MyselfFeelYouBackGoSee

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.

Peter Morgan

ManLosingPeopleMeParentKnow

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Richard Powers

TimeSilenceBookReadingYouHuman

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