Shawn Thornton Quotes

#1. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn

#2. The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad ... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.

Daniel Handler

#3. It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan

Cath Crowley

#4. To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Maurice Sendak

#5. And as for the smell of me on you, that's more than arousing. That's primal.

Anonymous

#6. Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

John Fowles

#7. Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Marshall McLuhan