W. Ian Thomas Quotes

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Summer
  • Fight
  • Line

• Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Dad
  • Manager
  • Hospital

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Planning
  • Little
  • Fish

• Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • America
  • Nothing
  • Congress

• For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Weapons

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Bad
  • Enjoy
  • Television

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Mother

• When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Society

• MTV ruined music for us.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Music
  • MTV

• (He remarked) that anyone who truly wished to develop tolerance toward other human beings should start by casting aside any and all religious affiliation. When challenged by one of the other guests, he had asked innocently whether anyone could name a single person put to death or driven from his home by an atheist over theological matters.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Death
  • Single

• There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!

  

  W. Ian Thomas
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Boring