Thomas Youk Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I think of the man I was in those days, cutting across the nat-cropped grass of the campus, burdened down by the weight of the books in which I sought the consolation of other men's grief, and aburdened futher by the large weight of my own bitterness, the whole vision seems a nightmare. There were girls all about me, so near and yet so out of reach, a pastel nightmare of honey-blond, pink-lipped, golden-legged, lemon-sweatered girls — Frederick Exley

Like water, I have no skin. Only surface tension. — Gretel Ehrlich

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. — Bryan Adams

If i opened the door would he be there? would he smile at me and show his dimples? Would his cheeks be scruffy because he needed a shave? Would he hug me? all i've wanted all these monthes was for him to be alive.
But i'd seen him on the floor. i'd seen him in the coffin. And you can feel it when someone has died, you can feel that his soul is gone, just gone, the emptiness of his body. — Carrie Jones

I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams? — Nina George

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting. — Michael Ignatieff

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic. — Ian McClellan

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong — Donald Barnhouse

information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. — James Gleick

In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England. — Laura Dekker

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. — Jeremy Lin

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. — Pierre Bayle