Thawnkham Quotes & Sayings

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work. — Levon Helm

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. — Alvin Toffler

In fact, in one sense one could define compassion as the feeling of unbearableness at the sight of other people's suffering, other sentient beings' suffering. And in order to generate that feeling one must first have an appreciation of the seriousness or intensity of another's suffering. So, I think that the more fully one understands suffering, and the various kinds of suffering that we are subject to, the deeper will be one's level of compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Sometimes, when I play music, I feel as if I am giving life ... It isn't just notes on the paper anymore: you are recreating the thought, transmitting it. It becomes shareable, but it can never be kept. You go through and at the same time you let go of the experience. That is part of the wonder of music: it can never be kept; it is ephemeral and at the same time enduring. — Hephzibah Menuhin

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood. — Debra Anastasia

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them. — Jonathan Mayhew

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?"
He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it's like he knows. "Sometimes I'm afraid of what I'm leaving behind," he says. — Lauren Oliver

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.' — Alex Pettyfer

This is, like, the biggest thing to happen in our town since that girl found a potato that looked like Mother Teresa. — John M. Cusick

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense. — Lili Taylor

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe