Tom Hulme Quotes

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling. ~ T. E. Hulme

There really is no place like home, even when it's grown a couple of sizes too small... ~ Keri Hulme

All the land is filled with mysteries, and this place fairly sings with them. ~ Keri Hulme

Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee. ~ Keri Hulme

I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself. ~ Keri Hulme

I am exceedingly angry for no good reason. ~ Keri Hulme

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. ~ Keri Hulme

I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page. ~ Keri Hulme

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth ... ~ Keri Hulme

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. ~ T. E. Hulme

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered. ~ T. E. Hulme

She has this curious heavy grace, like something out of its element making do in a heavier medium. Like she should be living in water. ~ Keri Hulme

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves. ~ T. E. Hulme

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. ~ Kathryn Hulme

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. ~ T. E. Hulme

A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. ~ Keri Hulme

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in ... He has not created something,he has seen something. ~ T. E. Hulme

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. ~ T. E. Hulme

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind. ~ T. E. Hulme

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever. ~ Keri Hulme

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him. ~ T. E. Hulme

But something. Something has died. Isn't there now. I can't paint.' There are tears in her voice but none in her eyes. 'I am dead inside'. ~ Keri Hulme

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass. ~ T. E. Hulme

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. ~ Mike Hulme

Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be. ~ Keri Hulme

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada. ~ T. E. Hulme

I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life. ~ Keri Hulme

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things. ~ T. E. Hulme

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide. ~ Keri Hulme

I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. Why, when everyone else was fascinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. I've never been attracted to men. Or women. Or anything else. It's difficult to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite. ~ Keri Hulme

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. ~ T. E. Hulme

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ~ Thomas Hulme

Her optimism flew high, not only for her eventual cure of which she was sure, but for everything that would happen to her henceforth. That too, she knew was a characteristic of the tubercular - the very quality , in fact, which made them such interesting patients. ~ Kathryn Hulme

Between waking and being awake there is a moment full of doubt and dream, when you struggle to remember what the place and when the time and whether you really are.
A peevish moment of wonderment as to where the real world lies. ~ Keri Hulme

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions. ~ T. E. Hulme

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. ~ T. E. Hulme

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress. ~ T. E. Hulme

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. ~ Keri Hulme

Sunflowers and seashells and logarithmic spirals (said Kerewin); sweep of galaxies and the singing curve of the universe (said Kerewin); the oscilating wave thrumming in the nothingness of every atom's heart (said Kerewin); did you think I could build a square house? So the round shell house holds them all in its spiralling embrace. Noise and riot, peace and quiet, all is music in this sphere. ~ Keri Hulme

They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great.
Together, all together, they are the instruments of change. ~ Keri Hulme

Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist. ~ Tom Manion Tom Sileo

Writing isn't my life…it's a lovely part of my life... but it's not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can't really prioritize when you're involved with family or you're involved in fishing, you can't say, 'Oh, I really should be writing. ~ Keri Hulme

I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life. ~ Tom Stoppard

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires. ~ Tom Felton

While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley ~ Tom Daley

Life's too short, make the most of it. ~ Tom Cassell

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets! ~ Tom Robbins

Art is a creed, not a craft. ~ Tom Wolfe

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that. ~ Tom Brady

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains. ~ Keri Hulme

She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear. ~ Tom Robbins

If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us. ~ Tom Stoppard

But it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. ~ Tom Waits

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. ~ Langston Hughes

Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham ~ Tom Cunningham

If I could be anywhere, where would I be? ~ Tom Felton

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. ~ Tom Dolby

I guess when you smile, it's just joy coming out of you. ~ Tom Hiddleston

The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993 ~ Tom Stoppard

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause ~ Tom Krause

It is more important to be free than to be happy. ~ Tom Robbins

We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice. ~ Tom Cunningham

One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth. ~ Tom Cunningham

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'! ~ Tom Savini

If I were a girl for a day I would try to sleep with Tom Kaulitz. ~ Tom Kaulitz

The past can never be changed, but the future, by the Grace of God, can be.--Tom Blubaugh ~ Tom Blubaugh

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.' ~ Tom Odell

You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death ... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui. ~ Tom Holt

I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone. ~ Tom Brady

(Hitler responded by calling Mussolini's movement "Kosher fascism.") ~ Tom Reiss

Life isn't fair, but you can be. ~ Tom Selleck

Don't settle for less than is possible. ~ Tom Peters

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops. ~ Tom Waits

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else. ~ Tom Holland

Put your good where it will do the most! ~ Tom Wolfe

You can judge this book by its cover. ~ Tom Icon

Could one perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on a penguin? ~ Tom Michell

You don't mind? Life is in the minding. ~ Tom Stoppard

skin the off-white of a dirty motel sheet. ~ Tom Piccirilli

It's mistakes that make us who we are. ~ Tom Hardy

Always create the need before you show a solution. ~ Tom Golway

Felt good, though, just being what I was. ~ Tom Spanbauer

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. ~ Tom Stoppard

I'll indulge you and look at the pictures. ~ Tom Clancy

_____ and his thick slab of a Louisiana accent. . . ~ Tom Gliatto

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up. ~ Tom Spanbauer

Just a dark shape against an even darker background. ~ Tom Perrotta

You can't cure stupid. -Brian Sheahan "Trauma Junkie. ~ Tom Hobbs

Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike. ~ Tom Robbins

People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. ~ Tom Robbins

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. ~ Tom Stoppard

San always called it "figiator" - flanked by two large, ~ Tom Yarborough

Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man. ~ Tom Piccirilli

I love myself," he said. "But it's unrequited. ~ Tom Robbins

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them! ~ Tom Peters

My Favorite Ring is Always the Next One ~ Tom Brady

In the end, you will always kneel. ~ Tom Hiddleston

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead. ~ Tom Clancy

A romantic, I think the word is. Latin for idiot. ~ Tom Holt

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ Tom Stoppard