Thom Jones Quotes

#1. Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Human behavior, ninety-eight percent of it, is an abomination.

Thom Jones

#3. Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

Thom Jones

#4. All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

Paddy Considine

#5. Most fears that have to do with people working remotely stem from a lack of trust.

Jason Fried

#6. I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

David Weber

#7. You have to know the human heart.

Thom Jones

#8. when you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits.

Thom Jones

#9. A friend of mine in the ER told me that the animal consciousness is one of the here-and-now and that the human being can approximate it by drinking five martinis while soaking in a hot tub.

Thom Jones

#10. The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.

Ian McKellen

#11. Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn't make a difference.

John De Ruiter

#12. I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Ricky Williams

#13. If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

John Waters

#14. I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.

Aisha Mirza