Thompon Quotes & Sayings

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing. — Vikram Seth

Your Life Purpose is your North star in the dark night as you navigate your canoe. It is the compass by which your soul directs your life journey. — Itzhak Beery

The Law which governs all life is God. — Mahatma Gandhi

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own. — Hill Harper

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone — Saint Augustine

If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth. — Bob Lefsetz

Don't curse the snow, curse yourself for moving to a place with snow. — Ben Tolosa

Turn around.
Only two words, but they deliver such a sensual threat.
I do as you ask without question. You are right behind me, breathing hard into the small of my neck, where I like to be kissed. — Felicity Brandon

There are 500 reasons I write for children ... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics ... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff ... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Arya slid her dagger out and drew it across his throat, as smooth as summer silk. His blood covered her hands in a hot gush and he tried to shout but there was blood in his mouth as well. "Valar morghulis," she whispered as he died. — George R R Martin

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. — Djuna Barnes

Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul — Al-Masudi

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind. — Pico Iyer

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut

We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful and coherent witness to the perennial evangelical message, which indicates to humanity the path to an authentic peace. — Pope Benedict XVI