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

• The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Life
  • Clock
  • Strikes

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Weak

• Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still with us, and these are the premise of the music. The time factor has little to do with it because, after all, it is about human feeling, the Universe and who we are as people.

  

  David Finckel
  • People
  • Universe
  • Feelings

• Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Brain

• 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