Great Thornberg Quotes & Sayings

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov

The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it. — Tamer Hassan

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs. — Ester Dean

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping. — Bill Cosby

I just don't like my world disturbed without some warning. — Harper Lee

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines. — Hillary Clinton

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible. — Fareed Zakaria

I have a very low eerie threshold. — Jandy Nelson

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. — Martin Filler

The evil you know is better than the evil you don't. — Amy A. Bartol

... you know that Sunday-night feeling, where the dread of reality sinks in, that you've mismanaged your time and now the anxiety of homework and the wasteland of early mornings and school stretches ahead of you? Well, I hope he has that feeling every minute of every day of his entire life. — Emery Lord

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff. — Eileen Myles

Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.' — Michael Eric Dyson

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord. — Edward Gibbon

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. — Yotam Ottolenghi