"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
-Thomas Hardy
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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