Norman Thayer Quotes & Sayings

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience ... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body ... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you. — Garth Stein

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off. — Harriet Walter

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu. — Grace Meng

You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life — Sunday Adelaja

Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it? — Leslie W.P. Garland

We were unable to obtain any lesbians, Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn't been in season, or his paperwork wasn't in order.) — Mary Roach

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms. — Christian Wiman

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. — Clarence Budington Kelland

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. — Joseph Addison

Don't kiss me," she said warningly.
"I don't intend to," he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me. — Linda Howard

Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-year-olds that there were dragons living in the storm drains, under our street.
'We feed them meat ... and then they don't get hungry and blow fire and roast us.'
Little James listened closely, with a very serious expression on his face. Then he ran home to get some hot dogs from his mother. — John Elder Robison

A curator treasures aged bibles, but the wise treasure the wisdom within. — Christian Hunt

If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently. — Chris Bosh

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. — Paul Wellstone