Thistlethwaite Buck Quotes & Sayings

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own. — Thomas Browne

Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do
like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. — Martin Amis

Nick's eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the
Twilight Zone? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

My favorite times were spent in his backyard where he and his roommates had "let nature take its course," the weeds towering above our heads. We placed two chairs in the middle of that jungle and discussed what we didn't know we were discussing: What brings a writer and an engineer together? How can we reconcile our diverse interests into a pointed goal, a single aphorism on life? More simply stated: Why are we falling in love? — Megan Rich

Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted. — Glen Wilson

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers. — Philipp Otto Runge

It's like you say, I have to do what makes me scared. Or else my world gets so small it'll squash me. — T.E. Woods

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. — Loretta Ellsworth

Oh, hello, me lovely, we haven't met. Asmodeus, demon extraordinaire, at your service. Any service you may require, especially those that involve nudity and adjoining body parts joining other people's body parts. (Asmodeus) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside. — Patrick Suskind

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world. — Vivienne Westwood

Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope). — Jon Kabat-Zinn

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. — Theodore C. Sorensen

The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion. — Lailah Gifty Akita