Thobolos Bush Quotes & Sayings

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease. — John Newton

But I prefer the windy days, the days that strip me back, blasted, tossed, who knows where, imagine them, purple-red, silver-pink, natural confetti, thin, fragile, easily crushed and blackened, fading already wherever the air's taken them across the city, the car parks, the streets, the ragged grass verges, dog-ear and adrift on the surfaces of the puddles, flat to the gutter stones, mixing with the litter, their shards of colour circling in the leafy-grimy corners of yards. — Ali Smith

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again. — Bob Parsons

You may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you. — J. E. Buckrose

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture. — Washington Irving

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it. — Patti Smith

Even after all this time, I hope. — Marie Lu

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses ... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people. — Alfred Bester

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. — Barry Mann

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters. — Steven Shainberg

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you. — Norlito Baclayen

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion. — Gale Norton

I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me. — Susan Hayward

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson