Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904

Topics

GreatWantLastEnglishCentury

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

John Carmack

TruthTruth IsEndPowerfulNow

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson

LoveArtPoetryWeatherPhilosophy

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.

Michael Gove

BeginningHotelConservativeCentury

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

Stephen Graham Jones

LifeMomentRomanticActionComedy

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

Steven Wright

PeopleLaughBecomeAstronautsKids

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Ruzwana Bashir

WomanFinanceSmartThinkYouStill

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Michelle Trachtenberg

DayDancePracticeFeetWeekClass

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

Johnny Winter

BetterBluesRockRollJustLike

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Delta Goodrem

MusicGoLittleShellMakeLike

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

Bradley Wiggins

PeopleEarlyDressedNinetiesHow

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Anne Boleyn

DeathMeRestQuietRockOut

Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.

Ashton Eaton

GreatForwardLongLookAlwaysEven

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