R.S. Thomas Quotes

When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

The future is as bright as your faith.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

All politics is local.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.

Words are the money of fools.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.