R. S. Thomas Quotes

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Service
  • Luxury

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • President
  • Hands-On

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• In my mind, I always think of myself as an underdog type.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Underdog

• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Mind
  • Business

• There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Me
  • Myself

• It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Famous

• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

  

  Banksy
  • History
  • Stop
  • Start

• I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Family

• A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • People
  • World
  • Effort

• Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • God
  • Earth
  • Fall

• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Race

• Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Failure