Thomas Aquinas Quotes
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Quotes to Explore
-
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
-
The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
-
Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
-
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
-
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
-
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
-
Man is an imagining being.
-
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
-
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
-
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
-
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
-
The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
-
Depression is a choice.
-
Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
-
A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.
-
I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
-
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
-
I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.
-
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
-
A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.
-
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
-
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
-
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
