Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Rose George

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

Savannah Guthrie

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.

Sarah Lacy

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

Sydney Schanberg

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

Stella Young

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jennifer Weiner

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Huneker

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Robert Gottlieb

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Civilization and Its Discontents

One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.

The Confessions of Edward Day

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Cold Days

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

In the City of Shy Hunters

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

In the City of Shy Hunters

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.

The Chance

... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

The Con Job

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

The Curse of the Mistwraith

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Contact

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

The Constant Princess

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

Castle Roogna