R.S. Thomas Quotes

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

Principally, I'll give anything a chance, only because the greatest challenges are the ones that you never see coming.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.