R. S. Thomas Quotes

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

R. S. Thomas

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• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Moment
  • Clock

• I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • College

• I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Always
  • Material

• There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

  

  Al Feldstein
  • People
  • Guy
  • Black

• I love vinyl, man.

  

  Amos Lee

• I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Band

• Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

  

  Jonathan Bennett
  • Fighting
  • Competition

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Clock
  • Opponents

• Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Good
  • Light

• It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Live
  • Fun

• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  

  Kanye West
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Facts

• I was surprised that they just let me wind the clock down and take a shot. I told my teammates that I was going to wind it down. ... I was hoping if I did miss, the ball would bounce and the time would run out.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Wind
  • Clock

• I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Happy

• I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • Needs
  • Able

• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• If there was time on the clock there was a chance.

  

  Andy Geiger
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Clock

• Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Shadow
  • Minds
  • Drags

• Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.

  

  Sukhwinder Singh
  • City
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Environment
  • Violence
  • Factors

• I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Imagine
  • Parent
  • Aunt

• I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Clock
  • Satellites
  • Nowhere To Go