Thorness Quotes & Sayings

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. — Bernard Williams

You'll see that things will turn out like they do, because that is what usually happens - almost always, in fact — Jonas Jonasson

But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If — Catherynne M Valente

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play! — Tom Hanks

So what about that key?" I asked.
"I knew you'd be asking me about it sooner or later." He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me.
"What do you want for it?" I sneered. "Five dollars?"
"I don't want money," he said with a wicked grin.
"What does it go to?"
"A kiss will unlock more than this key will," he whispered in my ear. — Ellen Schreiber

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through. — Mel Gibson

Fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel — Richard Paul Evans

I love you, too.
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough. — Megan McCafferty

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves. — John Steinbeck

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing. — Pharrell Williams

With emotion, so thick I am surprised it does not choke him on the way out. — Veronica Roth

It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars. — Aristotle.

Scars are simply modern battle wounds. Sometimes the enemy happens to be inside us. — Andrew Grey