Thordsen Cheek Quotes & Sayings

He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed — Victor Hugo

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems. — Matt Damon

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called "normal" functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way? — Jacques Derrida

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source. — Jules Cashford

It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without. — Dan J. Marlowe

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years. — Melanie Laurent

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor. — Chris Bohjalian

Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness. — Jack Weatherford

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent. — Cynthia Nixon

You've already said this is your dream job. And forgive me if I'm wrong, but I promised before God, Reverend Walsh, and a congregation of our nearest and dearest to 'cherish you, uphold your hopes and dreams, and keep you safe at my side.' — E.L. James

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. — Jonathan Franzen

...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive... — John Geddes

I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me. — S.R. Grey