Jodi Thomas Books Quotes

#1. A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

Honore De Balzac

#2. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

William Shenstone

#3. I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

Pal Benko

#4. If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)

Roland Barthes

#5. God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

Derek Prince

#6. As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#7. Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Mary Lee Settle

#8. With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.

Marty Rubin

#9. Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

Wayne Gerard Trotman