Roderick Thorp Quotes

#1. I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions ... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

#2. Tragedy plus time equals humor

Marie Osmond

#3. Don't change your body to get respect from society. Instead let's change society to respect our bodies.

Golda Poretsky

#4. All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Martin Luther

#5. Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Bryant H. McGill

#6. Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

Jason Kidd

#7. I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

Natalie Dormer

#8. I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Oliver Sacks

#9. Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#10. Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Nicolas Walter

#11. Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson

#12. If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Jim Butcher

#13. We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Roderick Thorp

#14. The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.

Nancy Thayer