R.S. Thomas Quotes

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to hear that, but it's true

I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. That's the fun for me.

Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Merchants have no country.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

Light and liberty go together.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.