Shecky Thomas Quotes & Sayings

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. — K. Eric Drexler

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything. — Mike Lowry

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson

Healing stories are magickal tales born from personal tribulation and victory, which are then shared. — S. Kelley Harrell

Was in this way that the people of antiquity, when they had raised a temple on the site of one which had been torn down, always took care to introduce into the new building some of the materials, or at least a column, of the old one, in order to preserve something of the old and sacred in the modern, and in order that the souvenir, crude and worn, should have its worship and its influence over the heart, even among the master-pieces of the new sanctuary. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT. — Henry Miller

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely. — Preston Sturges

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow. — Robert Henry Newell

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back again. — Tom Waits

The good people who are publishing this book have a concern that they have expressed to me. The concern is that readers like yourself will read my history of the Baudelaire orphans and attempt to imitate some of the things they do. So at this point in the story, in order to mollify the publishers - the word 'mollify' here means 'get them to stop tearing their hair out in worry' - please allow me to give you a piece of advice, even though I don't know anything about you. The piece of advice is as follows: If you ever need to get to Curdled Cave in a hurry, do not, under any circumstances, steal a boat and attempt to sail across Lake Lachrymose during a hurricane, because it is very dangerous and the chance of your survival are practically zero. — Lemony Snicket

There are two Italies ... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one. — Carolyn Crane

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. — Jasper Johns

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were. — Timothy Keller