Throgmorton's Quotes

#1. Somehow the painted door now stood open. Blaise was following Livia through it, past Throgmorton's outstretched arm. Sunni shed her slippers and hurried after them, still not quite believing they were walking through what she had thought was only paint on a wall.

Teresa Flavin

#2. His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would be likely to begin his signature with an initial, and spell his middle name out.

Mark Twain

#3. A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

#4. If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Jonathan Gottschall

#5. I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

#7. Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Was it his looks? Perhaps his smell, or more than likely his maturity.
There's something so very arousing about a calm, controlled, confident man - qualities most often found in an older man.

Elizabeth Finn

#9. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. The time had come- indeed it was past due- when I had to disavow and dissociate myself from those who in the name of peace burn, maim, and kill.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

Dave Hunt

#12. Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Dave Anderson

#13. The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

Ewan MacColl

#14. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

Joshua Waitzkin