Debi Thomas Quotes

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Serious
  • Name
  • Questions

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Beginning
  • Need
  • Happen

• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Idea
  • Original

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Pain
  • Problems
  • Start

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Work
  • Think
  • Stop

• I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Good
  • Political
  • Never

• We did get to keep a few choice items. I kept a few pairs of slacks and power suits that stood out. I still have a few outstanding pieces from 'Saved by the Bell' simply because they were from 'Saved by the Bell.' They're vaulted in my storage space.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Power
  • Space
  • Choice

• I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Great
  • Greatness

• They sang of love, and not of fame;Forgot was Britain's glory;Each heart recalled a different name,But all sang Annie Lawrie.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Different
  • Heart

• MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Money

• It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World

• Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

  

  Marguerite Duras
  • Text

• Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Important

• There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Good
  • Painting

• 'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • War
  • Holy
  • Orators

• There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Believe
  • Collaboration
  • Resilience

• I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

  

  Debi Thomas