Caitlin Thomas Quotes
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.Caitlin Thomas
Quotes to Explore
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
Carl Honore -
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
Pat Metheny -
When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
Victoria Pratt -
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
Zubin Mehta -
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty -
Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
Randy Falco
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
Zac Goldsmith -
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
Rand Paul -
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin -
Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
Ram Charan -
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
Harlan Coben
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
Gail Collins -
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair -
Piano is like drudgery.
Warren Zevon -
Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Kage Baker -
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell -
What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.
Joe Jamail
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
Ludwig Quidde -
A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.
George Weigel -
Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Sabine Lisicki -
Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.
Emile Augier -
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.
Caitlin Thomas