Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Alan Lightman

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

Caitlin Moran

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

Deborah Norville

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Graydon Carter

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Gloria Naylor

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Jonathan Evison

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Marilyn French

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Clyde Edgerton

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

Charles Kuralt

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

Diane Sawyer

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

David Talbot

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Francine Rivers

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George W. S. Trow

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Heather Brooke

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Helen Rowland

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen