Dean Thomas Quotes

Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he's gone over to Hufflepuff, where I'd always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn't get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn't a first name. ~ Mimi Cross

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them. ~ J.K. Rowling

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male ... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature. ~ Walter Dean Myers

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack. ~ Thomas Mann

After all, many people came here for vaguely therapeutic reasons, believing there were medicines dispensed by the very mood of the town's quaint streets and its sea-licked shores. ~ Thomas Ligotti

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place. ~ Thomas F. Wilson

They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. ~ Thomas Pynchon

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. ~ Thomas Pynchon

Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 900 million and an annual output of only 1.8 trillion euros (less than the French GDP of 2 trillion), ~ Thomas Piketty

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. ~ Mark Thomas

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. ~ Thomas Sowell

The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
They all need to go on safari together. ~ Thomas L. Friedman

No wonder Satan wants to convince us that we are weak, because once a believer finds strength in prayer, the game is over for Satan. ~ Thomas Nelson

Excuse me for troubling your capraesque lives with this first-ever note of moral unclarity. ~ Rob Thomas

For other organisms, bumbling along from here to nowhere is well managed. For us, it is a messy business and often intolerably horrific. To end all this paradox and horror [...] we must cease reproducing. Nothing less will do. ~ Thomas Ligotti

I often resorted: buckets, brooms, garden rakes, Granny Smith apples, cats that when thrown will reliably take out their fury not on the thrower but instead on the person at whom they're thrown. I didn't like throwing cats or animals of any kind, as far as that goes, but every once in a while, in a life-and-death situation, there was nothing to be done but grab a cat and throw it, or an angry ferret. ~ Dean Koontz

What millions died that Caesar might be great! ~ Thomas Campbell

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. ~ Howard Dean

Heavenly Father loves you - each of you. That love never changes. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt. ~ Thomas De Quincey

I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else. ~ Thomas L. Smith

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is especially important, for these are people who will no longer be around to launch more attacks on American soil. Iraq has become a magnet for enemies of the United States, a place where they can be killed wholesale, thousands of miles away. ~ Thomas Sowell

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness. ~ Thomas Watson

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor ... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion. ~ R.S. Thomas

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the labyrinth of your grosser illusions. Didn't I show our well-behaved audience an angelized version of you? And you saw their reaction. They were bored and just sat in their seats like a bunch of stiffs. Of course, what can you expect? They wanted the death stuff, the pain stuff. All that flashy junk. They wanted cartwheels of agonized passion; somersaults into fires of doom; nosedives, if you will, into the frenzied pageant of vulnerable flesh. They wanted a tangible thrill.
("Drink To Me Only With Labyrinthine Eyes") ~ Thomas Ligotti

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear. ~ Thomas Merton

While editing "Done in One":
FOCUS or F*** US! 08-15-2014 ~ Jan Thomas

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~ Thomas Carlyle

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death. ~ Thomas Hobbes

Because nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! ... She would have laid down her life for 'ee. I could do no more. ~ Thomas Hardy

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. ~ Thomas Hardy

Their shadows sported over the hills like cats, chasing the sunlight over sparkling granite and dull slate, the bright dry grass and the small hidden gleams of water. ~ Pamela Dean

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice. ~ Thomas Sowell