Thorn Tree Forum Quotes

#1. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#4. Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he's laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious.

Khaled Besrour

#5. You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.

Rich Burlew

#6. I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

Wayne McGregor

#7. But I mean , why even have a love affair? ( ... ) I never understood that kind of crap. If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

Kofi Annan

#9. This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

Lady Gaga

#10. Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#11. We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. F it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

Fulton J. Sheen

#13. The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

Dannah Gresh

#14. All she wanted was a family, all he wanted was fame; as their relationship famished.

Anthony Liccione

#15. People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Peter Coyote