Ann Hood quote: "Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on."

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
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

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I...
ANN 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

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

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director r...
ANN 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

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of stre...
ANN HOOD

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is ...
ANN HOOD

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
ANN HOOD

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from scho...
ANN HOOD

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

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

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON 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

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

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

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet oth...
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

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
THOMAS HOOD

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your off...
LEROY 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

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
LEROY 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

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing gen...
LEROY HOOD

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
LEROY 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

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

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

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will...
PAXTON 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

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

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

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove...
PAXTON HOOD

I remember, I remember, / The house where I was born, / The little window where the sun / Came peepi...
THOMAS HOOD

Our squad members are getting access to trauma and grief counselors. It's becoming a very difficult ...
CHARLES 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

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

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

I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its dappled hide, / But when it came to know me wel...
THOMAS 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

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

I am pleased to stand before you and report: Jasper County is in good standing.
GEORGE HOOD

With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying...
THOMAS HOOD

The departure could not have come at a more inopportune time.
WAYNE 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

You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter ...
GAVIN 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

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

No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -
THOMAS HOOD

Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor...
GAVIN HOOD

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November...
THOMAS 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

They are getting close to where they want rates to be and want to move cautiously over the last few ...
MICHAEL HOOD

It is definitely from the heart. I have heard no complaints from them. They understand that we were ...
BILL HOOD

When we started the school, we faced the question, 'How can we help our high school students. We dec...
BILL HOOD

This project is unique because the work was awarded to a state-owned contractor. It was an opportuni...
BILL HOOD

This project is unique, because the work was awarded to a state-owned contractor. It was an opportun...
BILL HOOD

Oakton's RFID lab and curriculum will have significant impact on many levels within the college, the...
BILL HOOD

It proves how good movie-making can get now and of course we have the big one, King Kong, coming up ...
BILL HOOD

I think they are starting to realize that they can have a special season. They understand how good t...
TIM HOOD

You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and bran...
HOLLY HOOD

We did not see anything in the second quarter results that would cause us to alter our full year 200...
WAYNE HOOD

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence
THOMAS HOOD

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