R.S. Thomas Quotes

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.

Let the boat work - and not me!

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulder. Don't you know the hardest part is over?

We're all looking for something, something to be.

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

And the brave make their own fortune!

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.