Thom Gunn Quotes

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

Thom Gunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004

Topics

GayTeachersFirstStartedKnewFew

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

John Cameron Mitchell

ComfortBecomeOutMonkTakeCome

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Stephanie Kwolek

LifePeopleIdeasSurpriseYouJust

You don't criticize your employer.

Tucker Carlson

YouEmployerYourCriticize

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

Tony McCoy

WorkLoveMoneyThoughtDoneLucky

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

WorryHelpYouTroubleNothingReal

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Jonathan Sacks

SuccessPassionDoingEnjoyYou

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

Drew Barrymore

HappyThinkImpactBeing HappyBeing

You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most successful artists are the ones who can mix creativity with business.

Colm Wilkinson

BusinessCreativityYourselfLearn

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Confucius

CourageWantRightSeePrinciple

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Chuck Hagel

BorderAlwaysIsraelSecure

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

Brad Pitt

QualityI AmDegreeAmBent

When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.

Ashley McBryde

PeopleGrowing UpSingingGrowingUp

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