R. S. Thomas Quotes

somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Party
  • Sometimes

• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Win

• I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • Nice

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Love

• I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Up
  • Time
  • Never

• The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Time
  • Future
  • Smart

• You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I have a very irregular life, and by that, I mean I do many different things with my time. No day is the same, which is great for me because as they say, 'Variety is the spice of life,' and I utterly agree and live by that statement.

  

  Jessica Steen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

  

  Ann Bancroft
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
  • Writer

• The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

  

  Bob Newhart

• somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Tree