Mayor Of Casterbridge Quotes

#1. I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.

Suzanne Collins

#2. Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

John Irving

#3. I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Jim Himes

#4. The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.

Thomas Hardy

#5. Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.

Kate Morton

#6. Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

Enid Blyton

#7. The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.

Thomas Hardy

#8. You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Jim Butcher

#9. I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

Bitsie Tulloch

#10. Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Ana Castillo

#11. And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

Thomas Hardy

#12. Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

Thomas Hardy

#13. Fancies find room in the strongest minds. Here, in a churchyard old as civilization, in the worst of weathers, was a strange woman of curious fascinations never seen elsewhere: there might be some devilry about her presence.

Thomas Hardy

#14. In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

Matthew Perry

#15. Over the years in prison, when I have been by myself, as I am a good deal of the time, I have closed my eyes and turned my head towards the sun, and I have seen red and orange that were like the brightness of those quilts.

Margaret Atwood

#16. What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

Albert Reynolds

#17. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Thomas Hardy

#18. I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

Dick Dale

#20. Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

Thomas Hardy

#21. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy

#22. After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical equivalent of the 2 a.m. phone call ever parent dreads: 'Mom, I'm not saying I wrecked the car, but I need a ride home.'

Jon Stewart

#23. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

Alan Turing