Thieme Quotes

#1. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

#2. To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .

John Daniel Thieme

#3. A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

Marianne Thieme

#4. Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

#5. that I thought of you - of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks

bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands

John Daniel Thieme

#6. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#7. While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare of another human or an animal. So, where necessary, it is the task of the government to intervene and curb the freedom of religion.

Marianne Thieme

#8. I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.

Rand Paul

#9. . . .in your light, had I learned to love, here
in your beauty, could I speak
knowing of this space close within
as the breath held inside a garden rose, there -
there is no time.

John Daniel Thieme

#10. . . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving
within the trees - then, fleeting words of consolation
would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words
confessed reluctance - our words
were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

John Daniel Thieme

#11. those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses - it
will go on holding, though in cruelty - of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.

John Daniel Thieme

#12. The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

Marianne Thieme

#13. beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said
"Every tale of a love
can only be a tale of ghosts that linger
in these spaces we
can never hold," - as the wind
gave echo

John Daniel Thieme

#14. Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.

Emma Roberts

#15. . . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child's song running in the timothy . . .

John Daniel Thieme

#16. I wish to go down under the waters -
the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where all
that is, here, existing, is
is only to be lost within the susurrations
and the rumours of water and the evening star
we wait for...

John Daniel Thieme

#17. a few words spoken beneath the moon, love
may be, but I write your name
in the celestial dust that lingers
in the air, above
the veilchenblau roses, callow
and pale

John Daniel Thieme

#18. Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.

Marianne Thieme

#19. A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

Samuel Goldwyn

#20. Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

Vidya Balan

#21. we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.

John Daniel Thieme

#22. In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

Marianne Thieme

#23. Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.

Woodrow Wilson

#24. Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Marianne Thieme