Gullane Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war. — Evan Currie

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable. — Jhonen Vasquez

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles. — Terry Pratchett

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion. — James Gray

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system. — James Mercer

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles. — Janet Fitch

You know, I used to say that it's really tough to get out of the top 100, you know? So I proved to everybody that it's not so tough, it's pretty easy. — Ernests Gulbis

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

And who's to say that Horatia is not Lucien's perfect match?" Audrey asked.
"If she is I dread to think what that says about our sister," Cedric muttered.

-His Wicked Seduction — Lauren Smith