R.S. Thomas Quotes

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

I'm a warrior for light.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

Balance is overrated.

The sky isn't falling.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

Windows are the eyes of the soulless

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.