Hugh Hood quotes

Hugh Hood quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.”
-- Hugh Hood

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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
“There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.”
“Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?”
“The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.”
“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”
“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”
“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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