#thomas

There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#rules

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#cook #gave #i #numbered #people

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freedom-of-religion #religion #thomas-jefferson #freedom

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#optimism #pessimism #thomas-raith #victory

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#thomas-raith #vanity #humor

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#father #hardy #i #lawrence #mother

What I have is surface. Grooming, good genetics, whatever. Whether you've rolled out of bed an hour ago without having had a shower for three days, or you're wearing a designer suit, there is a deep, perfect beauty to you that takes my breath away. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#beauty

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#always #appeared #danny #down #every

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#thomas-jefferson #respect

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#call #called #creative #creative work #day