Thanin Vadhanapanich Quotes & Sayings

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction. — Romesh Gunesekera

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. — Dylan McDermott

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. — Michael Michele

Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here. — Will Hobbs

We are the world, we are the children ... — Michael Jackson

The broken branch hissed loudly, and then that
wind was converted into these words: Briefly will
you be answered.
When the fierce soul departs from the body from
which it has uprooted itself, Minos sends it to the
seventh mouth.
It falls into the wood, and no place is assigned to
it, but where chance hurls it, there it sprouts like a
grain of spelt.
It grows into a shoot, then a woody plant; the
Harpies, feeding on its leaves, give it pain and a
window for the pain.
Like the others, we will come for our remains, but
not so that any may put them on again, for it is not
just to have what one has taken from oneself.
Here we will drag them, and through the sad
wood our corpses will hang, each on the thornbrush
of the soul that harmed it. — Dante Alighieri

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. — George McGovern

Endings were hard, even more so when they faded away rather than exploding into dust — Tiffany Snow

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do. — Shane Claiborne

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry. — James MacDonald

By the twentieth century, only a few self-isolated sects practiced the collaborative tradition. Blame it on wars that killed millions, the atomic bomb, Freud, or any combination of factors you choose - there's no shortage of reasons. The result is that most of us grew up in a culture that applauded only individual achievement. We are, each of us, generals in an ego-driven "army of one," each the center of an absurd cosmos, taking such happiness as we can find. Collaboration? Why bother? You only live once; grab whatever you can. But — Twyla Tharp

I like music when it makes you feel. — Sean Paul

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few moments of grace. — Dani Shapiro