Caitlin Thomas Quotes

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

Caitlin Thomas

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Day
  • Religion
  • End

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  

  Xenophon
  • Pleasure
  • Most
  • Sauce

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • May
  • American
  • Body

• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Writer

• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Live
  • Done
  • Present

• I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Why
  • Like
  • Dark

• After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • Right
  • Secrets

• When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Business

• I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Home
  • Working
  • Week

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Paper
  • Contract

• On the windowpanes came rattling fistfuls of shot, and the snow whirled and sifted beneath ill-fitting doors, slid in the cracks of windowsills and searched in a frenzy for any refuge against the fury of the wind.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Wind
  • Snow

• The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • History
  • Nature

• A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People

• Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.

  

  Brian Sibley

• I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

  

  Chris Parnell
  • People
  • Funny

• Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • World
  • Movie
  • Walk

• I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

  

  Kathryn Erskine
  • Strong
  • Hurt
  • Don't Think

• [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

  

  Caitlin Thomas