A Quote by Thomas Beecham

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

Thomas Beecham

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Depressing Doleful Drooling Hopeless Quite

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Thomas Beecham
English - Composer
April 29, 1879 - March 8, 1961

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

Claire Weekes

It is good to get goals, but it is quite depressing if we don't win.

Danny Welbeck

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

D. H. Lawrence

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Roger Ebert

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Hugo Weaving

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

Hugh Grant

the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

Winifred Holtby

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Tobias Smollett

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

Victoria Pendleton

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

Alice Merton

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.