Thribb Quotes

#1. I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It was all very E. J. Thribb of me.

Simon Schama

#2. My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

#3. The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

Walter Isaacson

#4. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Dean Karnazes

#5. New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

Cornelia Parker

#6. The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Angela Merkel

#7. It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Simon Blackburn

#8. Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Wycherley

#9. Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

Baha'u'llah

#10. If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.

Mother Teresa

#11. Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Carla H. Krueger

#13. I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

Big Sean

#14. Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

Mark Batterson

#15. M'Dear," I said cordially, "Your butt's blocking my bumper. Do you think you could move your loitering five feet to the south and let me leave?

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. Nothing is permanent.

Dalai Lama