Thomas Edward Yorke Quotes

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace

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• That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

  

  Gary Carter
  • World
  • Me
  • Winning

• It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • World
  • Attention
  • Songs

• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • Different
  • Man

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

  

  Jack Germond
  • World
  • Real
  • Pictures

• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

  

  David Ayer
  • World
  • War
  • Dirty

• NSS is delighted to support the New Horizons mission by helping to share this exciting milestone in space exploration with the general public in America and around the world.

  

  Bruce Pittman
  • World
  • America
  • Support

• As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• People will say what they want to say, and it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman? I sure hope I don't. I know I am.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • People
  • God
  • Jesus

• I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • World
  • Sea
  • Wanted