Thome Online Quotes & Sayings

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution. — E. J. W. Barber

The purity of intention repels fear. — Toba Beta

With the girls, on the other hand, if the pleasure which I enjoyed was selfish, at least it was not based on the lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone and prevents us from admitting that, when we chat, it is no longer we who speak, that we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people and not of a self that differs from them. — Marcel Proust

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it. — Edmund Hillary

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked. — Marina Abramovic

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. — John McCain

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing. — Carson Kressley

I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything. — Meghan Daum

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives. — Marlene Dietrich

Hell is no longer Hell without a vacation. — Miles A. Maxwell

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it! — Ryan Seacrest

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world. — Barbara Fredrickson

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline

Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it. — Paul Silway