Thaxter Shaw Quotes & Sayings

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. — Charles Baudelaire

Children want the same things we want.
To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss

I've met a lot of actors who have three dreams: You dream of making a sci-fi, you dream of making a Western and you dream of making a vampire movie. So this is one of my life-dreams as an actor coming true. — Richard Sammel

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field. — Jerome Bruner

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing. — Niccolo Ammaniti

Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice. — Liane Moriarty

I don't know why it is that one kind of dark can be so different from another. Real dark is thicker and quieter, it fills up the space between your jacket and your heart. It gets in your eyes. When I have to be out late at night, it's not knives and kicks I'm afraid of, though there are plenty of those behind walls and hedges. I'm afraid of the Dark. You, who walk so cheerfully, whistling your way, stand still for five minutes. Stand still in the Dark in a field or down a track. It's then you know you're there on sufferance. The Dark only lets you take one step at a time. Step and the Dark closes round your back. In front, there is no space for you until you take it. Darkness is absolute. Walking in the Dark is like swimming underwater except you can't come up for air. — Jeanette Winterson

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover. — Saint Francis De Sales

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned. — Simone Elkeles

-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone! — Charlotte Bronte

No one understands like Jesus
When the days are dark and grim.
No one is so near, so dear as Jesus;
Cast your every care on Him. — John W. Peterson

But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories, catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what. — Jennifer E. Smith

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman