Thoughtest Quotes & Sayings

My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money. — Bo Derek

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best. — Dwyane Wade

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. — Alex Campbell

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius. — Wazim Shaw

If I lose him, I'll break. His mind touched hers. You can't break, Ivy. You're the only home my Arrows know - no matter what, that home must survive. — Nalini Singh

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers. — David Gemmell

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with! — Mariela Dabbah

We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place. — Marianne Williamson

O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people. — Ezra Furman

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. — Mary McCarthy

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. — Thomas More

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you. — Eliza Doolittle

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property; he had sunk from his modest elevation down to a lower ditch than that from which he had started; but he had now a dignified calm he had never known before and that indifference to fate. And thus the abasement had been an exaltation and the loss gain. — Thomas Hardy