Thrummy Quotes & Sayings

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. — Louis L'Amour

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. — John Sergeant Wise

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. — Will Rogers

I'm bad at golf. — Seth MacFarlane

Good sex can be anything, including dirty. — Volkmar Sigusch

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time. — Tavi Gevinson

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths. — Pat Riley

The churches weren't going to accept me looking like a street person with long hair and faded jeans. They did not like the music I was recording. And I had no desire to preach the gospel to the converted. — Larry Norman

NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT — Andrew Britton

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. — Tears For Fears

The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it. — Catherine Ingram

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids. — Noy Holland

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. — Sue Grafton

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast. — Mark Edmundson

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. — Dwight L. Moody