Top 100 Thayer Quotes

#1. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #23245
#2. Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195.

Robin S. Sharma

Thayer Quotes #46872
#3. and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #63851
#4. Time is a blank paper we paint with our best colors; is a gift to feel well and exercising happiness.

Markus Thayer

Thayer Quotes #89635
#5. They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #89700
#6. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #127891
#7. I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #145667
#8. Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #162621
#9. I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you ... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit. -Thayer

Wally Lamb

Thayer Quotes #170360
#10. I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #202216
#11. People with motorcycles always assume that everyone without one wants a ride. I didn't want to offend him, so I said sure.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #209713
#12. My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #213260
#13. I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #215735
#14. The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #227764
#15. Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #228710
#16. You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #282473
#17. The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.

Damon Thayer

Thayer Quotes #296304
#18. A good friend once said, "If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #307705
#19. Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar?

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #321661
#20. With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #343919
#21. If I've gotta go down, I'm gonna go down in style.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #344903
#22. I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #364887
#23. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Thayer Quotes #377309
#24. Sometimes the best you can do is your small part, perfectly

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #378922
#25. There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #388787
#26. Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #397376
#27. It's funny, but if I had to say whom I'm closer to, who knows me better, I'd have a hard time choosing between my husband and my best friend.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #398483
#28. Someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #427011
#29. She was aware of the two men in the room, both of them carrying their burden of history, their charms and flaws, their heaviness and guilt, for no adult was ever really without guilt of some sort.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #434685
#30. We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.

Melissa Thayer

Thayer Quotes #451472
#31. question. "I don't know. I like Boston. And I like being close to my mom." "And your sisters." Arden hesitated. This was officially a first date,

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #508820
#32. That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #510774
#33. I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #513944
#34. My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #528898
#35. Sometimes you can't help but destroy the intricate things in life.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #529421
#36. Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #536428
#37. No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #553583
#38. Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #554312
#39. Evan looked down at the woman who was ruining his life.

Thayer King

Thayer Quotes #573630
#40. Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #594068
#41. the morning after Haley's party and

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #618094
#42. Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #627708
#43. The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #630801
#44. As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #641634
#45. Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #659063
#46. Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #664260
#47. Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #703895
#48. I wondered what the value was, in the Darwinian sense, of making fast friends like that. There must be some scientific significance to being a follower, to allowing yourself to be persuaded by personality

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #737270
#49. It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #783596
#50. If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it's inflated value, it's inevitable loss.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #789251
#51. Severine was a greedy, selfish person. She wanted everything. Right now, sitting here with Thayer, she wanted to keep this moment forever. Nothing gave her the right to desire it so much.

Calia Read

Thayer Quotes #806349
#52. On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #846461
#53. Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #849325
#54. He owns Douchedome. All assholes compete in the douche form of the Olympics at Douchedome.

Calia Read

Thayer Quotes #857404
#55. It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #858519
#56. I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #858538
#57. When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #864267
#58. Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #884063
#59. Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Thayer Quotes #896402
#60. I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #898348
#61. It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #923652
#62. I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #924515
#63. It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Harry Bates Thayer

Thayer Quotes #928949
#64. It was impossible to tell what was going through her mind, but she seemed more weirdly here, alive and in her element, than she'd ever been while trudging the halls of Upper Thayer with her books under her arms, or sitting at our dining room table.

Joe Schreiber

Thayer Quotes #935954
#65. I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #940585
#66. The first time I saw you," I say, "I had a premonition. I had the feeling I'd found the thing I'd always been waiting for. The next time I saw you, it was the same. And every time after it's been the same.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #972216
#67. I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #1000828
#68. She acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because in life there is always hierarchy, and it is frankly not profitable to remain modest and anonymous, not even at a funeral.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1073562
#69. Looking at him made things worse. It wrapped her closer to him and made her want to drag in every breath of air that specifically made him Thayer.

Calia Read

Thayer Quotes #1075436
#70. I mostly, for someone who makes a lot of their living in comedy - and even for someone who doesn't make their living in comedy - I don't watch a lot of comedy.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1081208
#71. Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1105605
#72. Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #1117377
#73. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1122020
#74. What is freedom when you're too beholden to act spontaneously

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1125207
#75. Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1135824
#76. I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #1145762
#77. Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1147109
#78. As an actor, I'll take any job.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1190515
#79. A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Thayer Quotes #1193490
#80. Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1195831
#81. Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1226118
#82. Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1238224
#83. If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1241819
#84. Kindness is everything ... When you receive it and express it, it becomes the whole meaning of things. It's life, demystified. A place out of self. Not a waltz, the the whirls within a waltz.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1253659
#85. When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.

James Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1260848
#86. Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1266715
#87. If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,

Robert E. Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1279029
#88. going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle

Patricia Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1305374
#89. I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #1365010
#90. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Thayer Quotes #1388550
#91. The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1394228
#92. I have work to do as a human being.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1439296
#93. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Thayer Quotes #1454743
#94. I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.

Maria Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1462649
#95. Before Ethan went all Incredible Hulk on Thayer's ass, the most exciting thing to happen was a spray-cheese fight some of the morons from the wrestling team got into on the back patio.

Sara Shepard

Thayer Quotes #1466609
#96. Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

Nancy Thayer

Thayer Quotes #1487342
#97. Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1489334
#98. Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

Thayer David

Thayer Quotes #1494647
#99. The most awful hunger is the type that is satisfied too soon, before it moves you, before you are moved by it, before it becomes protracted and superior, a motivating business, making you honorable, graceful, clever - a hunter.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Thayer Quotes #1507139
#100. If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

Ace Frehley

Thayer Quotes #1513544

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