Top 100 Thayer's Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.
Maria Thayer
#4. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.
Maria Thayer
#5. Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.
Thayer David
#6. Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.
Nancy Thayer
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
Thayer David
#11. 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
#12. I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
Nancy Thayer
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#18. Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#19. Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.
Nancy Thayer
#23. He owns Douchedome. All assholes compete in the douche form of the Olympics at Douchedome.
Calia Read
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,
Robert E. Thayer
#28. Sometimes I think together we are the worst kind of calamity." Thayer grinned back. Severine's lips burned. "Then I've never wanted to be destroyed so bad.
Calia Read
#29. Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.
Nancy Thayer
#30. My mother refuses to go into the ocean. She respects it, she says, which is basically the same as saying she's afraid. I go in because it scares me ...
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#31. Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#32. Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.
Nancy Thayer
#33. I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.
Maria Thayer
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#38. I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.
Thayer David
#39. going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle
Patricia Thayer
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.
Maria Thayer
#50. 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
#51. I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.
Thayer David
#52. 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
#54. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#55. I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.
James Thayer
#56. If I've gotta go down, I'm gonna go down in style.
Nancy Thayer
#57. With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
Thayer David
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
Maria Thayer
#65. There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.
Thayer David
#66. 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
#67. I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.
James Thayer
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#71. 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
#73. Time is a blank paper we paint with our best colors; is a gift to feel well and exercising happiness.
Markus Thayer
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
Nancy Thayer
#77. No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
Nancy Thayer
#78. 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
#79. Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.
Nancy Thayer
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.
Thayer David
#83. 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
#84. 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
#86. 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
#87. Evan looked down at the woman who was ruining his life.
Thayer King
#88. 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
#89. It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer
#90. Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.
Nancy Thayer
#92. My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.
James Thayer
#93. I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.
Maria Thayer
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.
Melissa Thayer
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal.
Nancy Thayer
