Will Thomas (novelist) Quotes

“Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.”

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• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Desire
  • Single
  • Hand

• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dream

• Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Christian
  • Belief
  • Fiction

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Love
  • Marriage

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Watching

• The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Movie
  • Death
  • Political

• The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Design

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • Free
  • Professional

• When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • High
  • Father
  • Ugly

• There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Moral
  • Empathy

• No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Lord

• I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Hair
  • Cheesecake

• The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Black
  • Light
  • Eyes

• “Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.”

  

  Will Thomas (novelist)
  • Hair
  • Torture
  • Method