R. S. Thomas Quotes

I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

R. S. Thomas

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Single
  • Powerful
  • Impossible

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• 'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guitar
  • Radio
  • Hip Hop

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Doubt

• Being seen is important for people. Doesn't happen enough for anyone. We're not here long in this world.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

  

  Petra Nemcova
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Speak

• Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

  

  Carl Woese
  • People
  • Atheism
  • Aliens

• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • World
  • Mind
  • Heart