R.S. Thomas Quotes
... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.
Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
I gave thee what could not be heard What had not been given before The beat of my heart I gave !
I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!
Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.
Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?
You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!
I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.
Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.
American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.
A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter
My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.
Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.
No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success.
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
I do not want to pour out my heart to the world. I am cautious of what I say and to whom.
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.