Eric Thomas Quotes
If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
-
I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
-
My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
-
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
-
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
-
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
-
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
-
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
-
I love girl power.
-
If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
-
I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
-
By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
-
Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
-
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
-
I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
-
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
-
Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
-
I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.
-
I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.
-
You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be smooth sailing.
-
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
-
Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.
-
If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.
