Thudbutt Quotes & Sayings

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. — James Duval

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain. — Joshua Roman

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker. — Colson Whitehead

Success is made of 99% failure. — James Dyson

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions. — David Suchet

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world. — Teresa Of Avila

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. — Pope John Paul II

She was regal as a queen. Eager as a child. Proud as a cat. And she was like none of those things. Nothing like them. Not in the least little bit. — Patrick Rothfuss

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives. — James Robison

Death takes away the commonplace of life. — Alexander Smith

The greater the trial, the sweeter the victory. — George Muller

If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to be wooed, pleaded for, struggled for; but he took it for grantetd that a woman was made like that - she did no come halway to meet desire, or if she did, there was something wrong with her. She shrank instinctively from passion, but her shrinking inflamed it in spite of herself; then, when she reluctantly yielded, here compassion prompted her response. No passion without compassion, no compassion without love, so that her passion was proof positive of her loev. Since every act of love was an act of compliance, it was right to be grateful for it - her surrender was so beautiful - an intoxicating compliment that filled one with a perpetual consciousness of achievement. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Save your money, pay your taxes, it doesn't last forever ... — Stone Cold Steve Austin