William Thorndike Quotes & Sayings

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war. — Ernest Hemingway,

Out, Himmler! Out of my sight! Go and visit your club-footed daughter! Bring her sauerkraut! Sauerkraut and heroin, Thorndike! She will love it! She will - ! — William Peter Blatty

After orbiting the moon, mundane business problems did not faze him. — William N. Thorndike Jr.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much — Natalie Portman

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God. — Russell Brand

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. — Walter Rauschenbusch

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time. — CM Punk

That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the eyes that tell us what we're really seeing, what's underneath. So all I painted in the picture were greens. Patterns, random slashes, shapes over shapes, shadows, emotions, it's all there. — Joey W. Hill

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool. — Marat Safin

It is one of an astoundingly large and plentiful number of human misconceptions that time is linear. That is to say, that there was a beginning, then there is a middle, then there is an end. This stems from the human desire to make everything about them, and the ridiculous human trait of being completely unable to see things from a perspective outside their own. Time is so much more infinitely complex than this that it is an insult to time to even suggest it is only capable of going in one direction. Even the idea of time going in one direction at all is disgustingly simplistic. To suggest that you can only go forwards and/or backwards in time may be one of the most ridiculous assertions of all time. Literally. — Zack Mitchell

Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks. — Maureen F. McHugh

Italians are genetically incapable of standing in an orderly line, so much so that the movie theater seems more crowded than it actually is. — Petra F. Bagnardi

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. — Debra Winger