R.S. Thomas Quotes

The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

I have been told I have resigned; however, I'm telling you I have not resigned. Usually a guy knows if he's resigned, but I know that I have not resigned.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.