Charles Thomson Quotes & Sayings

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?' — Peter Hook

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way. — Charles M. Schwab

When one has to seek the honour that comes from God only, he will take the withholding of the honour that comes from men very quietly indeed. — George MacDonald

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut. — Dan Stevens

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles. — Charles Darwin

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves. — Ursula Burns

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues. — Daniel Kahneman

It was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia — James Madison

To me death is better than the defensive. — Alexander Suvorov

Give love as love wants to be given and you will see love's many returns. — Elise Icten