Thoust Quotes & Sayings

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just come. If he had not the energy to ascertain his position in time and space, he also lacked the desire ... In utter comfort, utter relaxation he lay absolutely still for a while, and then sank back into on the the light momentary sleeps that occur after a long, profound one. — Paul Bowles

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. — Jason Reitman

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other. — Rosalind Wiseman

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. — Mark Twain

The smile of an angel that had my heart sprouting wings. — Aria Cole

I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine. — Ford Madox Ford

College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program. — William C. Rhoden

Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears. — Alanis Morissette

I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to. — Jeff Foxworthy

I don't like to do things the same way every time. You always want to be evolving as a composer, and if your creative process is exactly the same each time, then how do you expect today's work to be any different from yesterday's? — Christopher Tin

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's! — Robert Browning

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. — Sonia Sotomayor

How she does stare! It's odd what a savage feeling I have to anything that seems afraid of me. — Emily Bronte

My eyes were gray - more like my cousin Annabeth's than my mom's. — Rick Riordan