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[David Thomson, the author of] The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, ... a modern rarity: an acto...
JAMES COBURN There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Gi...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthon...
OM PURI Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. B...
MICHAEL GRANT What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
CORMAC MCCARTHY If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
GEORGETTE HEYER The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr...
ADAM CLARKE The kid Anthony beat in the final is only 18-years-old and was beaten by five points, when Anthony h...
GEOFF PETERSON If the district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.
BARRY SLOTNICK Quinn came forward and Sam pulled him aside. His old friend looked tortured and sad.
“What’...
MICHAEL GRANT The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Ro...
ALFRED MOLINA He was still furious at Quinn, but they were—literally—all in the same boat now.
MICHAEL GRANT There were never more than a few hundred extras on set at a time during the shoot, yet the climactic...
DENNIS BERARDI I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
DIRK BENEDICT When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.
MARVIN EMERSON The talks were very positive. Celtic were as professional and as thorough a club as I have ever deal...
DAVID BALDWIN When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'...
SISSY SPACEK In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote...
ALEXANDER SMITH Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message ...
MANISH DAYAL The David Souter example - and to a lesser extent Anthony Kennedy - have made conservatives exceedin...
WHIT AYRES He has proved himself one of the great Celtic managers, and his place in the history of the club is ...
BRIAN QUINN John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none...
JAMES MCBRIDE The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportio...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN I think the whole thing just needed swept away. It started again with somebody new just changing the...
CRAIG LEVEIN And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
BIBLE We wanted to establish Anthony [Robertson] inside early. Even though we didn't score a lot in the fi...
JEFF OVERMYER One Thanksgiving, we ate at his house, ... We watched old film, and I got to see his retired jersey ...
WILLIE LANIER He understands that he's a starter now and he's picked up his game. When Anthony decided to leave, [...
HERMAN EDWARDS Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
OSCAR WILDE Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...
ANDY RODDICK It has been very tough financially on Anthony. I hope he gets more local support in the lead-up to B...
GEOFF PETERSON We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
STEVEN COJOCARU In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of...
TOM WOLFE We ham it up,
JAN KING And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
BIBLE I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the...
DAVID GINOLA And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in ...
BIBLE He's a ham. He could follow in his sister's footsteps.
LINDA HANNA I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, hea...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS We had a lot of young guys last year. Guys like Anthony were leaders, surrounded by a lot of young g...
BUDDY TEEVENS 'No Country for Old Men' was epic.
ERIC FELLNER All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational fa...
JANDY NELSON Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
BIBLE I left West Ham because of a difficult time, I left Arsenal because I wasn't in the team and once or...
JOHN HARTSON Frankly I think that's unfair, ... ...I think it's possible to take issue with the content of that f...
CLARENCE WYATT All of their experiences were the stuff of epic films — things they had to go through in those 100 ...
DON CHEADLE David missed his spot on a couple of occasions, ... and we were able to take advantage of them.
JOE TORRE He has got two years remaining on his Celtic contract, so why wouldn't he see that through? He is en...
JONATHAN BARNETT Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
CHAD SMITH The tops were one-shoulder cashmere sweaters and the skirts were the same silk satin that (artist Jo...
GEOFFREY BEENE A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscu...
IAN HACKING Anthony had one of his better days and he is peaking at the right time with sectionals and nationals...
JAMES SWEENEY For the first time in one place in the west, there were important people from all the other states, ...
ANN MACBETH And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants
MARTIN LUTHER Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a...
JOHN NEWTON Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
BOB DYLAN Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world—...
V.E. SCHWAB Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making ...
REBECCA PIDGEON And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, a...
BIBLE And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.
JOHN CONNOLLY I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...
ANDY RODDICK I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
WILLIAM GIRALDI No one knows that, including David, apart from two people in his campaign team,
ANDREW MITCHELL His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it r...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It was me, David and one phone line. David was up here on Labor Day answering phones. People would c...
ADAM YOUNG Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
MICHAEL MOORE Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
BRETT LEE In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY Anthony basically was the offense in the first half. It took a little longer for some of the other g...
STEVE FELDMAN I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his w...
MALORIE BLACKMAN St. Anthony is my patron saint. That's who my son was named after. We went into St. Anthony's Chapel...
CARMEN PROVIANO The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they wer...
KAREN ESSEX I like to 'ham' it up, too.
ROBERT HUTCHINSON Mr. Quinn has failed to meet his responsibility to support his child, and that has consequences, ......
JENNIFER GRANHOLM If the Universe is the Mind of God, then we are all thoughts in his Grand Idea.
LINDA REID In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.
A.J. DARKHOLME If they were basketball players, Lamont would be Michael Jordan and Anthony would be Dominique Wilki...
BARRY HUNTER When Newt Gingrich spoke, he spoke strictly on history. You never would have known what his politica...
GARY SOUTHARD We have agreed the fee with Celtic and Mark passed his medical this morning.
EDDIE THOMPSON They make it so that 95 percent of the kids in that (Quinn) classroom actually want to get up and go...
JOE FIELDS It was one of those things where we just got swept. There's a winner and a loser and we were the los...
KEVIN MILLAR (from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)

In the ...
NICK HORNBY My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of...
GEORGETTE HEYER Early on (in my career) I got swept up in this world, you know, Lord of The Rings, and all these gre...
ORLANDO BLOOM According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father...
SABINE BARING-GOULD David!" Xander yelled, because he had to yell something. His eyes snapped back to the figure in the ...
ROBERT LIPARULO If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
STEVEN WRIGHT If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
STEPHEN WRIGHT What's in Spam? nostrils brains?and eyes intestinal linings and uteri? anything swept from the slaug...
O ANNA NIEMUS There is No Word Someone in the Dictionary of God when we talk about His Sovereignty
YUSAF I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
CARTER BURWELL Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free...
BRIAN SELZNICK I was a 22-year-old foolish kid. And I think I -- there was this charismatic, powerful man who was s...
MONICA LEWINSKY Tall. Black hair swept back from his forehead. Lips curled up in a sneer... I know that face as well...
RAINBOW ROWELL Anthony was truly a gift to all of us and to millions and millions and millions of people. He was pr...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS

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DAVID THOMSON I'd say where he is now he's in a pretty amused state, and I hope he'd look down on it fondly with a...
DAVID THOMSON Brando clearly was imagining himself as that person. There are several aspects of it that fit with B...
DAVID THOMSON There's a funny thing to when you're writing something that's not quite yours. You feel unburdened. ...
DAVID THOMSON filling in gaps of the story.
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DAVID THOMSON [Exuding a blend of power and sensuality that defied gender expectations, Garbo] made you understand...
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DAVID THOMSON Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy...
DAVID THOMSON Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
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JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON A little, round, fat, oily man of God.
JAMES THOMSON Freedom is knowing who you really are.
LINDA THOMSON Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ho...
VIRGIL THOMSON I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...
JAMES THOMSON Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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JAMES THOMSON Ingratitude is treason to mankind
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JAMES THOMSON It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him...
RUPERT THOMSON You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.
ROY THOMSON A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
PETER THOMSON When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.
BOBBY THOMSON There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I...
BOBBY THOMSON It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the...
BOBBY THOMSON In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer rais...
BOBBY THOMSON In my mind, I had had enough of baseball.
BOBBY THOMSON I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would b...
BOBBY THOMSON I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
BOBBY THOMSON I was a raw rookie in Arizona during spring training in 1947, but I could do three things. I could r...
BOBBY THOMSON I think I had potential to be a legitimate guy out there, but I think I was a disappointment to the ...
BOBBY THOMSON I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing mu...
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VIRGIL THOMSON The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any k...
VIRGIL THOMSON Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
JAMES THOMSON Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
JAMES THOMSON Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
VIRGIL THOMSON I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
VIRGIL THOMSON I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
VIRGIL THOMSON I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing mus...
VIRGIL THOMSON You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
VIRGIL THOMSON The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you ...
VIRGIL THOMSON I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
VIRGIL THOMSON You always need to get an early goal. We came here pre-season, scored early on, and it ended up bein...
SCOTT THOMSON The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.
JOSEPH THOMSON The question is, is this going to create something to herald a sea change in how these companies ope...
BERTIE THOMSON Gather the rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying, And that same flower that blooms toda...
JAMES THOMSON Human embryonic stem cells give researchers reliable access to these neurons for the first time, and...
JAMES THOMSON Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ O...
JAMES THOMSON That works out to $16 per student.
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JAMES THOMSON Although the creation of this center is very important, I hope that NIH will ultimately decide to fu...
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JAMES THOMSON Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.
JAMES THOMSON See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.
JAMES THOMSON Like having your own licence to print money.
ROY THOMSON We have taken the pragmatic decision to withdraw the lost sale claim, ... This will speed up the pro...
CHARLES THOMSON The army... is now publicly declared to be for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the authority o...
CHARLES THOMSON He has a really good bullshit meter,
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VIRGIL THOMSON Musicians own music because music owns them.
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JOHN THOMSON Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON The real prize at the Tate is becoming a trustee. It's worth far more money.
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VIRGIL THOMSON We remain of the view that the PO inquiry is policyholders' best hope for government compensation, a...
CHARLES THOMSON Chick's not slowing down. He always skis like he's late for something.
BOB THOMSON My hip surgery did slow me down a little. I wasn't as quick around the boat as other people.
BOB THOMSON I was once timed at 99.97mph, but that's rubbish, I was miles faster than that [attributed]
JEFF THOMSON You can think best when you're happiest.
PETER THOMSON The protein grains can be purchased in each natural shop. As such there is no Greatest protein powde...
ANNE THOMSON The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchant...
RUPERT THOMSON We are risen apes, not fallen angels.
ANDY THOMSON I think they're invincible, frankly.
PETER THOMSON Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.
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JAMES THOMSON Try a thing you haven't tried before three times - once to get over the fear, once to find out how t...
VIRGIL THOMSON In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn ...
VIRGIL THOMSON Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the fiel...
VIRGIL THOMSON I look at you and I write down what I hear.
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VIRGIL THOMSON The Society is once again more stable and more secure than the last time we reported. I believe we'r...
CHARLES THOMSON I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting...
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STUART THOMSON By stepping outside the majority view, he undermines his own credibility. He just becomes another me...
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STUART THOMSON It will foster religious intolerance and misunderstanding, and what we need in this country - and wh...
KELVIN THOMSON Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death
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RUPERT THOMSON This is an amazing place, historically. It's sort of the seat of reformation, at least in Britain, a...
PETER THOMSON If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
ANDREW THOMSON The managing director really should see through that process.
GRAEME THOMSON It is a politically motivated decision.
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ERIK THOMSON but it also identified what we wanted the show to be, and particularly what Posie wanted the show to...
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ERIK THOMSON Nine seems to be prepared to hang in there,
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HUGH THOMSON There has certainly been some beating of the Inca drum.
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JEFF THOMSON In the end, if we don't win the Champions Trophy, who really gives a toss? For Australia, as long as...
JEFF THOMSON I have said for a long time that McGrath's best days are behind him.
JEFF THOMSON Jeez, it's not even as cold as this in my fridge back at Brisbane. [on England]
JEFF THOMSON I couldn't wait to have a crack at 'em [England]
JEFF THOMSON He'll cop it too [on Colin Cowdrey]
JEFF THOMSON I thought: 'stuff that stiff upper lip crap. Let's see how stiff it is when it's split' [on England]
JEFF THOMSON England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.
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PAUL THOMSON Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If w...
LYNN THOMSON Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they l...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J ARTHUR THOMSON Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How ta...
JAMES THOMSON (1) But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no m...
JAMES THOMSON (1) In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind: And some,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1) While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
JAMES THOMSON (1) 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON (1) So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, Th...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Of evening tinct, The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.
JAMES THOMSON (1) He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Invite the rook who high amid the boughs, In early spring, his airy city builds, And ceaseless...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyles...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prel...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Scroundrel maxim.
JAMES THOMSON (1) If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway, For his breeches he next day ...
JAMES THOMSON 1 A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
JAMES THOMSON 1 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And...
JAMES THOMSON (1) He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once ...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o'er you...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON (1) The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. ARTHUR THOMSON The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The sw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
JAMES THOMSON (1) At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
JAMES THOMSON (1) For nothing human foreign was to him.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
JAMES THOMSON (1) There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's or...
J. ANDERSON THOMSON The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is f...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even t...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID