Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions.


Thomas Hood

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Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water.
THOMAS HOOD
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven ...
THOMAS HOOD
At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tor...
THOMAS HOOD
A man perfect to the finger tips.
THOMAS HOOD
A man of refined taste and judgment.
THOMAS HOOD
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
THOMAS HOOD
A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
THOMAS HOOD
A greater liar than the Parthians.
THOMAS HOOD
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
THOMAS HOOD
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
THOMAS HOOD
Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!-- ...
THOMAS HOOD
Over the brink of it Picture it--think of it, Dissolute man. Lave in it--drink of it ...
THOMAS HOOD
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
THOMAS HOOD
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, ...
THOMAS HOOD
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
THOMAS HOOD
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
THOMAS HOOD
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
THOMAS HOOD
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD
And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.
THOMAS HOOD
Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet; Thou canst not tread, but ...
THOMAS HOOD
It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.
THOMAS HOOD
The cowslip is a country wench.
THOMAS HOOD
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps ...
THOMAS HOOD
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing ton...
THOMAS HOOD
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
THOMAS HOOD
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime ...
THOMAS HOOD
Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
THOMAS HOOD
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
THOMAS HOOD
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no...
THOMAS HOOD
The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no ...
THOMAS HOOD
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is d...
THOMAS HOOD
For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
THOMAS HOOD
Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
THOMAS HOOD
And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand, Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs...
THOMAS HOOD
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, ...
THOMAS HOOD
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
THOMAS HOOD
'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
THOMAS HOOD
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
THOMAS HOOD
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
THOMAS HOOD
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower...
THOMAS HOOD
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, no...
THOMAS HOOD
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s...
THOMAS HOOD
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - ...
THOMAS HOOD
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
THOMAS HOOD
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
THOMAS HOOD
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
THOMAS HOOD
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
THOMAS HOOD
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
THOMAS HOOD
The violet is a nun.
THOMAS HOOD
Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday-- But what i...
THOMAS HOOD
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
THOMAS HOOD
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now br...
THOMAS HOOD
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!
THOMAS HOOD
One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!
THOMAS HOOD
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gu...
THOMAS HOOD
And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs te...
THOMAS HOOD
Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves.
THOMAS HOOD
The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.
THOMAS HOOD
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no Salaam; And dear the beaver is to him ...
THOMAS HOOD
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were...
THOMAS HOOD
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
THOMAS HOOD
'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, an...
THOMAS HOOD
Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! N...
THOMAS HOOD
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
THOMAS HOOD
She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart ...
THOMAS HOOD
Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning h...
THOMAS HOOD
Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three ...
THOMAS HOOD
I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peepi...
THOMAS HOOD
But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a midnig...
THOMAS HOOD
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.
THOMAS HOOD
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
THOMAS HOOD
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
THOMAS HOOD
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
THOMAS HOOD
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
THOMAS HOOD
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Tw...
THOMAS HOOD
I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its dappled hide, / But when it came to know me wel...
THOMAS HOOD
Never go to France - Unless you know the lingo, If you do like me, You will repent by jingo
THOMAS HOOD
Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied - / We thought her dying when she slep...
THOMAS HOOD
I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country ex...
THOMAS HOOD
For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.
THOMAS HOOD
It's very convenient and saves me from having to plan and cook meals.
THOMAS HOOD
One more Unfortunate, / Weary of breath, / Rashly importunate, / Gone to her death. Take her up tend...
THOMAS HOOD
"Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Le...
THOMAS HOOD
There is even a happiness - That makes the heart afraid
THOMAS HOOD
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - He paints in nature and describes in rime
THOMAS HOOD
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying...
THOMAS HOOD
"Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two st...
THOMAS HOOD
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD
Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things - like sandwiches of veal
THOMAS HOOD
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / ...
THOMAS HOOD
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloati...
THOMAS HOOD
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -
THOMAS HOOD
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November...
THOMAS HOOD
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence
THOMAS HOOD
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind
THOMAS HOOD
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
THOMAS HOOD
That picture raffles will conduce to nourish - Design, or cause coloring to flourish, Admits of logi...
THOMAS HOOD
His death which happened in his berth, / At forty-odd befell: / They went and told the sexton, and /...
THOMAS HOOD
For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.
THOMAS HOOD
Alas! my everlasting peace / Is broken into pieces.
THOMAS HOOD
What is a modern poet's fate?/ To write his thoughts upon a slate;/ The critic spits on what is done...
THOMAS HOOD
I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in ...
THOMAS HOOD
She stood breast high amid the corn.
THOMAS HOOD
If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD
It was not in the winter / Our loving lot was cast! / It was the time of roses, / We plucked them as...
THOMAS HOOD
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, Novelty, no...
THOMAS HOOD
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago
THOMAS HOOD
It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E.C., That a monster dwelt whom I cam to...
THOMAS HOOD, JR.
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
LEROY HOOD
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it ...
GAVIN HOOD
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all wr...
GAVIN HOOD
I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
GAVIN HOOD
My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
GAVIN HOOD
The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flaw...
GAVIN HOOD
What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best w...
GAVIN HOOD
In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns...
GAVIN HOOD
For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Gr...
GAVIN HOOD
In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene,...
GAVIN HOOD
Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad gu...
GAVIN HOOD
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not...
GAVIN HOOD
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of ...
GAVIN HOOD
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mix...
GAVIN HOOD
When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, a...
GAVID HOOD
You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two...
GAVID HOOD
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to b...
GAVID HOOD
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
GAVID HOOD
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better ...
GAVID HOOD
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not...
GAVID HOOD
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, wi...
GAVID HOOD
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD
So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I�...
HOLLY HOOD
Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
ROBIN HOOD
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD
The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the cha...
GAVIN HOOD
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your off...
LEROY HOOD
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
LEROY HOOD
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I...
ANN HOOD
The most dangerous animal in the woods is a wounded one. We've been stabbed by the media and everyon...
ANTOINE HOOD
All that's good, but we're here to play basketball tomorrow.
ANTOINE HOOD
I wasn't planning on watching it at all. I was getting out of my car when someone called me and aske...
ANTOINE HOOD
We're 24-6; we feel pretty confident we're in. A lot of other teams lost (Thursday), as well. But it...
ANTOINE HOOD
It was all about coming together at the right time and being aggressive.
ANTOINE HOOD
I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.
ANTOINE HOOD
He molded it into the Air Force style. Every time we cross the line, we're always coming to play. We...
ANTOINE HOOD
Someone called me and said, ?Did you hear the news? You're in.' I thought he was joking. I started s...
ANTOINE HOOD
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of...
ANN HOOD
This was 1978, when flying was still an occasion, a special grand event that took planning and care....
ANN HOOD
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing gen...
LEROY HOOD
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids t...
ANN HOOD
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The na...
ANN HOOD
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As ...
ANN HOOD
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. t...
ANN HOOD
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
LEROY HOOD
I am going to miss it a lot. We've got an amazing crowd. The fans, my teammates, the people around h...
CARL HOOD
It was one of those games. Everybody was sharing the ball and getting good shots. The offense was fl...
CARL HOOD
That's the biggest thing. We cannot take this team lightly. The Saint Peter's loss got us down, but ...
CARL HOOD
The way we played tonight, that's how I want to play every game. I expect that from everybody on my ...
CARL HOOD
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand ...
LEROY HOOD
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identi...
LEROY HOOD
As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and cul...
AMY HOOD
We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for ...
LEROY HOOD
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will...
PAXTON HOOD
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD
Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren’t, they’re the ones who are the worst ...
HOLLY HOOD
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove...
PAXTON HOOD
Our squad members are getting access to trauma and grief counselors. It's becoming a very difficult ...
CHARLES HOOD
There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director r...
ANN HOOD
The city says we are partners in all this, but we have no input.
BILL HOOD
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
LEROY HOOD
The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody t...
GAVID HOOD
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical inf...
LEROY HOOD
I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of ...
ANN HOOD
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body sta...
ANN HOOD
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD
I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to...
GAVIN HOOD
Clearly they're losing share to the specialty guys, and they're suffering really from a downturn in ...
WAYNE HOOD
The first question after every screening is, 'Where can I buy the soundtrack?', and that definitely ...
GAVIN HOOD
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally...
LEROY HOOD
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those th...
LEROY HOOD
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of stre...
ANN HOOD
I am pleased to stand before you and report: Jasper County is in good standing.
GEORGE HOOD
The departure could not have come at a more inopportune time.
WAYNE HOOD
You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter ...
GAVIN HOOD
The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there...
PATTERSON HOOD
What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle ...
CHARLES HOOD
Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor...
GAVIN HOOD
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
LEROY HOOD
If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have ...
LEROY HOOD
Ok look man, you clearly are not hard up for money, you’re driving a range rover, so call whoever ...
HOLLY HOOD
We are asking the Legislature that, when a special session is called, to appropriate funds to the Su...
JIM HOOD
I suppose from some quarters that would mean Democrats.
WILL HOOD
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to br...
HOLLY HOOD
Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow y...
HOLLY HOOD