Chris Thrall Quotes

A Harley Davidson fanatic,he owned two of them he told me proudly ~ Chris Thrall

He puffed out his pigeon chest and waddled across the room towards me. With his feet pointing outwards, he looked like a fat duck with a grievance. ~ Chris Thrall

The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. ~ Chris Thrall

Saturday, September 17, 2005: Today in New Orleans, a traffic light worked. Someone watered flowers. And anyone with the means to get online could have heard Dr. Joy's voice wafting in the dry wind, a sound of grace, comfort and familiarity here in the saddest and loneliest place in the world."
Chris Rose, The Times-Picayune ~ Suzanne Johnson

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. ~ Chris Lowe

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.
Astronauts have these qualities not because we're smarter than everyone else (though let's face it, you do need a certain amount of intellectual horsepower to be able to fix a toilet). It's because we are taught to view the world - and ourselves - differently. My shorthand for it is "thinking like an astronaut." But you don't have to go to space to learn to do that.
It's mostly a matter of changing your perspective. ~ Chris Hadfield

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen. ~ Chris Baty

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep. ~ Chris Moneymaker

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been. ~ Chris Dietzel

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future ~ Chris Cleave

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms. ~ Chris Cunningham

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected. ~ Chris Christie

I like the gizmos that transport people. ~ Chris Van Allsburg

Circumstantial evidence may not be enough to convict. But it's almost always enough to reveal the truth. Isn't it? ~ Chris Pavone

Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys. ~ Chris Bohjalian

There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl. ~ Chris Colfer

I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance. ~ Chris Bauer

Why didn't you ask me out?" Layla blurted, suddenly needing to know. She bit the inside of her lip, cursing her impulsive tongue. Her heart beat erratically, thumping hard against her ribs. "Two summers ago when we volunteered at the theater? I kept thinking you might." His hands paused on a spool of twine as he looked at her, his eyes somber. "I wanted to. But I was coming off a difficult relationship - I needed some time." Regret laced his voice. "Chloe Peterson." He nodded. She'd seen them around town for about a year. The grapevine claimed she'd cheated on him with Chris Geiger, but who knew? "I was about to ask you out," he said. "But before I could ... " "Jack." His eyes skimmed over her face. "You have no idea how many times I've regretted waiting." Her face warmed under his perusal. Her pulse skittered. "Wonder what would've happened." One corner of his lips tipped up as a look of serenity passed over his face, displacing the regret. "Who knows. Maybe we'd be engaged for real. ~ Denise Hunter

First there is the 10-second war: can you do something in your first moments on stage to ensure people's eager attention while you set up your talk topic? Second is the 1-minute war: can you then use that first minute to ensure that they're committed to coming on the full talk journey with you? ~ Chris J. Anderson

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit. ~ Chris Abani

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen. ~ Chris Henchy

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing. ~ Chris Barber

If you listen to yo momma
You won't ever have no fun. ~ Chris Smither

I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like Chris Martin(Coldplay) and I like the running around. I think they are amazing at it, but I think that there is something great about a guy that can captivate a room, and very little movement and running everywhere. ~ Matthew Mayfield

Our heroes have arrived, then," the stranger said, his voice a soft, bubbly murmur.
"Excuse me?" Poison queries.
The odd creature put down his rod in a little wooden cradle that rested next to him and got up from the edge of the jetty. He looked them over with his vast, yellowish eyes.
"Hmm," he said gloomily. "You don't seem a bad bunch." He jostled past them and began to shuffle back towards his house. "At least you're not the typical muscle-bound warrior, beautiful sorceress, and amusing thief sidekick. By the waters, did that become stale fast. ~ Chris Wooding

The patient bird gets the worm," Skylene said with a confident nod. "That's another classic phrase."
Tangerina rolled her eyes and pulled her friend aside.
"Skylene, the phrase is 'The early bird gets the worm," she said. "It's supposed to encourage people to wake up early."
"Oh," Skylene said. "But that's not very encouraging for an early worm. ~ Chris Colfer

Nobody cirlces the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. ~ Chris Berman

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers. ~ Chris Christie

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important. ~ Chris Hughes

I believe we must pursue mastery for who we become along the way in its achievement. When we progress in Jiu Jitsu, that newfound experience and wisdom transcends into all areas of our lives. We use Jiu Jitsu as the vehicle for growth, but that growth radiates over all of human activity. Someone who devotes time and energy in learning this skill is learning far more than how to subdue an opponent. The student learns persistence, perseverance, pattern recognition, problem solving, and most importantly, learning how to learn. In the arena of life, these virtues are far more valuable than any guard pass. ~ Chris Matakas

Randy held out the koosh. "What is it?" "I have no idea," Donna said. "Your asshole scrubber? ~ Chris Genoa

Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade. ~ Chris Matakas

Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.' ~ Johnny Rogan

Men are as faithful as their options. ~ Chris Rock

As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid. ~ Chris Crutcher

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately. ~ Chris Noth

Our stories are the tellers of us. ~ Chris Cleave

They studied the way the world
changed at morning and dusk and imagined how the sun might fall on the skin of a goddess. ~ Chris Bohjalian

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues. ~ Chris Argyris

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House. ~ Chris Rock

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has. ~ Chris Christie

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. ~ Chris Prentiss

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams. ~ Chris Ofili

I, for one, am a CNN junkie. I'm convinced it stands for Chris Needs News. ~ Chris Colfer

I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not. ~ Chris Stapleton

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system. ~ Robert Wright

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required. ~ Chris Christie