Thornton Melon Quotes & Sayings

You could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down. — Edward Abbey

Avoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief. — Israelmore Ayivor

Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks — Arsalan Khan

Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed. — Paul Beatty

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist. — Lucy Poate Stebbins

Who hated as passionately as she loved, who asked questions that couldn't be answered, who — Nora Roberts

Two down, a million more to go." She wiped the green blood off her face with the hem of her shirt and glanced around. — A.O. Peart

Forty-seven years old, tired, but none the worse for wear. In a little more than thirteen months, he had discovered, analyzed, and packed tens of thousands of pieces of artwork, including eighty truckloads from Altaussee alone. He had organized the MFAA field officers at Normandy, pushed SHAEF to expand and support the monuments effort, mentored the other Monuments Men across France and Germany, interrogated many of the important Nazi art officials, and inspected most of the Nazi repositories south of Berlin and east of the Rhine. It would be no exaggeration to guess he put 50,000 miles on his old captured VW and visited nearly every area of action in U.S. Twelfth Army Group territory. And during his entire tour of duty on the continent, he had taken exactly one and a half days off. — Robert M. Edsel

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. — Elsa Peretti

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet. — Alan Moore

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. — Rafael Cruz

It's always the bastard who is most patriotic. — Anthony Marais

The earliest discussion of the authorship of Luke and Acts is from Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons in Gaul, writing in the late second century. He attributes the books to Luke, the coworker of Paul, and notes that the occurrence of the first-person narrative ("we") throughout the later chapters of Acts (starting at 16:10) indicates that the author of Acts was a companion of Paul and present with him on these occasions. These "we" passages in Acts are the key to the authorship of both Acts and the Gospel of Luke. — Anonymous

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about. — Robert Gottlieb