Rob Thomas Quotes

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty

• Remember
• Chaos
• Tragedy
• Disaster

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Why
  • Morning

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Present
  • Wars
  • Self-Defense

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Access to the Internet is an essential tool for equipping students with 21st century skills.

  

  Peggy Johnson

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Life
  • Live
  • Position

• I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

  

  David Prowse
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Mad

• Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Today
  • Growing

• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Remember
  • Chaos
  • Tragedy