R.S. Thomas Quotes

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Man is embedded in nature.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are?

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

I know all about dreams that make you want to scream.

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

The world changes when there's music in it.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.