John Thorn Quotes

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

John Thorn

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• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Political
  • Goal

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Important
  • Fence
  • Construction

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Game
  • Defeat

• My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Career
  • Song

• I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Eyes

• In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Roots

• I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Groups
  • Notion
  • Secularists

• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Past
  • Modern
  • Terrible

• Ah well-the boss didn’t have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew.

  

  David Gerrold
  • People
  • Business
  • Boss

• Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Reason

• Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Tired

• This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

  

  John Thorn