W.h. Griffith Thomas Quotes

#1. He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is ... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.

William Griffith Thomas

#2. Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Thomas Griffith

#3. I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

Thomas Ian Griffith

#4. Our hearts fill with terror at the thought of harm coming to our loved ones, don't they? You cannot have love without fear. The two coexist.

Marie Lu

#5. I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

Thomas Ian Griffith

#6. Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Thomas Griffith

#7. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

Orson Welles

#8. Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

Thomas Ian Griffith

#9. We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

Sherilyn Fenn

#10. The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas Griffith

#11. Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar ... and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

Thomas B. Griffith

#12. I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

Richard Feynman

#13. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

William Griffith Thomas

#14. Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Thomas Griffith

#15. Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Thomas Griffith

#16. I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Thomas Griffith

#17. I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

Thomas Ian Griffith

#18. Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

Jean Driscoll

#19. The 'good food' is ... the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.

William Griffith Thomas

#20. To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

Thomas B. Griffith

#21. I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Mark Twain

#22. Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.

Thomas B. Griffith

#23. He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

Thomas Griffith

#24. Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Thomas Griffith