Chuck Thompson Sayings

#1. My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

Kinky Friedman

#2. I...I am guilty only of love."

"Thou art a fornicator, an unclean Jezebel!

Virginia Aird

#3. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

Teddy Thompson

#4. The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

Cassandra Clare

#5. It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

Chuck Thompson

#6. To write, you have to want something to survive you.

Elena Ferrante

#7. Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

Chuck Thompson

#8. It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Yitzhak Navon

#9. A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

John O'Donohue

#10. Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn't make a difference.

John De Ruiter

#11. I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

Ian Harding

#12. She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

Thomas Hardy

#13. I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

Lauren Conrad

#14. I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.

Tony Bennett

#15. There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

Chuck Thompson

#16. Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.

Chuck Thompson

#18. It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

George Takei

#19. So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her.
I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

John Green

#20. Movement In A New Direction Helps You Find New Cheese. Haw

Spencer Johnson

#21. Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

#22. No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

Chuck Thompson