Lewis Thomas Quotes

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Hope

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • Fall
  • Look

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Good
  • Grateful

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • People
  • Profession
  • Interacting

• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Remember
  • Bad