R. S. Thomas Quotes

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

R. S. Thomas

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• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

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• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

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• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

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• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  

  Jack LaLanne
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• My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• I've served on the International Relations Committee.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
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• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

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• I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

  

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• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

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• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

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• In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

  

  Victor Vasarely
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• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  

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• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

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• The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.

  

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• 'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

  

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• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

  

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• Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.

  

  Robin LaFevers
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• As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Heart
  • Poetry