Famous Nigel Thornberry Quotes & Sayings

The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing. — Edward Norton

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter. — Frederick Lenz

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily. — Oliver Sacks

Clearly here was someone, like me, who tended to stumble through life and managed to see the funny side of situations. Someone who, like me, was fairly shy, yet not averse to expressing his opinions; someone who unlike me had a developed sense of his own worth and had the effrontery to convey it. — Jane Hawking

Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields. — George R R Martin

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. — C.S. Lewis

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil. — Richard Rodriguez

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle. — Karen Russell

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign. — Jose Mourinho

I believe in my heart that a seed planted with love never dies" ("An Enduring Love," pg. 141). — Farah Pahlavi

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older. — Jennifer Lopez

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace. — Pierre Omidyar

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. — Baltasar Gracian

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum. — Thomas Ligotti