Thayers Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. — Marin Ireland

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out. — Laurie Foos

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading. — Joe Lhota

Ask me, "Why would you travel on the difficult path?". Because , I trust God to walk me through the unknown journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The passport changes but the blood doesn't — Mario Andretti

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. — Douglas Coupland

Motivation is not just part of business - it's everything in business. — Ehab Atalla

Zen professes
itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff. — Steve Case

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food. — Tom Brady

Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something that literature cannot decide. Literature recognizes rather the *reality of the levels.* — Italo Calvino

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. — Lynn Abbey

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them. — Oscar Wilde

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. — Clement Freud