David Thomson Quotes

#1. How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

Louise Rennison

#2. I love deadlines," he has said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

#3. I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Sarah Hepola

#4. Agee wrote like someone who had not just viewed the movie but been in it - out with it, as if it were a girl; drinking with it; driving in the night with it.

David Thomson

#5. The only real danger is flinching, seeming to notice your own nakedness. If you don't flinch, you're merely nude, which is a classically recognized form of beauty.

David Thomson

#6. I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

David Thomson

#7. It can be seductive and cunning. Darkness wears many faces, and some of those faces can seem, at first, like allies.

P.C. Cast

#8. No one can protect a soul against themselves - against their own hand, you know!

Eleanor Catton

#9. When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

Alice Dellal

#10. Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

Billy Graham

#11. I am air and thought and can do nothing.

Madeline Miller