R.S. Thomas Quotes

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Women add zest to the unlicensed hours.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you cant beat it.

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

Your smile is the most gorgeous curve on your body.

If you don't respect yourself, don't expect others to respect you.

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.