Leroy Thompson Quotes & Sayings

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. — Laura Fraser

Drink wine, not labels. — Maynard Amerine

Co-opted convictions will always betray you. — Charles M. Blow

And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed. — Kate Mosse

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads. — Graham Moore

It sounds disgusting, in my opinion, 'stuffing,'" she continued. "I'd never heard of it before Rafe told me. To put your fingers inside a raw bird. It's the sort of thing they did on the frontier, isn't it. — Caleb Crain

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue. — Jane Porter

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another. — Jane Hirshfield

The difference between structuralism and existentialism is simple: the world-constituting 'I' of existentialism is displaced by the linguistic relation between signifier and signified. — Stephen Trombley

That's why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home - that I had given my life to lie down next to a murderer - that's why I was calm.
Because all I was thinking in that moment was that it was worth it. — Julio Alexi Genao

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for? — Nachman Of Breslov

Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter. — Isaac Asimov

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook. — Anna Held