Rob Thomas Quotes

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

People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show ... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off. ~ Rob Thomas

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone. ~ Rob Thomas

Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him. ~ Rob Thomas

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role. ~ Rob Thomas

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of. ~ Rob Thomas

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good. ~ Rob Thomas

Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like if I can throw my Aunt Janice into it, I'm cool, but otherwise I'm screwed. ~ Diane Ruggiero

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money. ~ Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it! ~ Rob Thomas

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me. ~ Rob Thomas

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch. ~ Rob Thomas

It's hard to look the people you love in the face when they've seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it's easier to rebuild your life if you're with someone who's been as low as you've been. ~ Rob Thomas

In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back. ~ Rob Thomas

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school. ~ Rob Thomas

Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss ~ Rob Thomas

Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it. ~ Rob Thomas

Who's a big fierce monster dog? Who's a bloodthirsty hound from Hell? It's you. Yes it is. ~ Rob Thomas

Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal. ~ Rob Thomas

Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie ~ Rob Thomas

Dad always said this town could wreck a person, it's what happens when you're playing a rigged game. I convinced myself winning meant getting out.
But in what world do you get to leave the ring and declare victory? This is where I belong, in the fight. It's who I am.
I've rolled around in the mud for so long, wash me clean and I don't recognize myself. So how about I just accept the mud and the tendency I have to find myself rolling in it. My name is Veronica and I'm an addict. Hello Veronica. ~ Rob Thomas

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years. ~ Rob Thomas

The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history
so much pain and so much rage and so much love
was that every item could turn on you in a flash. ~ Rob Thomas

When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice. ~ Rob Thomas

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface. ~ Rob Thomas

No doubt, what with all that graft and corruption filling your schedule. ~ Rob Thomas

She already knew that he'd decided to leave - knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her. ~ Rob Thomas

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them. ~ Rob Thomas

She and her mom used to visit him on lunch breaks and, in later years, she did her homework in an empty interrogation room while eavesdropping on the dispatch. ~ Rob Thomas

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. ~ Rob Thomas

As I start to think about what I want to do next, there are eight or nine networks I would be thrilled to work with. I remember developing at FX and the executives there telling me, 'We don't want to do shows that 20 million people kind of like; we want to do the show that 2 million people really like.' That's such a refreshing thing to hear. ~ Rob Thomas

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm. ~ Rob Thomas

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project. ~ Rob Thomas

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast. ~ Rob Thomas

He came to the University of California, Berkeley, with many aspirations, but as often happens, life got in the way, and his best laid plans turned into dreams for another day. As he gazed over the building immediately in the foreground, he could see Sather Tower on Berkeley's campus, known for resembling Campanile di San Marco in Venice. ~ Rob Thomas

One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year. ~ Rob Thomas

Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls. ~ Rob Thomas

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins. ~ Rob Thomas

His image shifted jerkily once, twice. She caught the sound of his voice deconstructed into halting and meaningless syllables. And then the window went dark. ~ Rob Thomas

Veronica's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils. She tried to relax her shoulders. ~ Rob Thomas

Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal. ~ Rob Thomas

She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day. ~ Rob Thomas

I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill. ~ Rob Thomas

Oh, I guess you wouldn't know, since you left the actual investigating for me to do. Well, buckle up, my friend, because I'm about to hand you actual clues to an actual crime, wrapped in a bow. ~ Rob Thomas

Each of us has a short ride on this earth and as long as we stay in our lane, and don't affect someone else's ride, we should be allowed to drive as we see fit. ~ Rob Thomas

Honestly I'm glad. Cases where stupid people do stupid things are really more my forte. Like this guy." He picked up a folder from the mess on his desk. "He updated his Facebook account from inside a house he was robbing. Classic Cliff McCormack material. I'll leave the murderers to someone who knows what he's doing. ~ Rob Thomas

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me ~ Rob Thomas

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal. ~ Rob Thomas

I'm with Logan, and I love him more than I thought I could love a man, and we have the opportunity to to be happy in spite of everything and I can't throw all that away for something more convenient. ~ Rob Thomas

This is why you shouldn't hire your friends. It's all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed. ~ Rob Thomas

We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really. ~ Rob Thomas

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind? ~ Rob Thomas

Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulder. Don't you know the hardest part is over? ~ Rob Thomas

Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice - all of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared to the real thing. There is a fearlessness about him. Watching him at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people, he looks as comfortable as if he were in his own living room. ~ Lori Majewski

I asked for a pony. And year after year I'm disappointed. ~ Rob Thomas

How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible. ~ Rob Thomas

As I took Allison to the airport for her flight into San Francisco and the rest of her life, I thought about how lucky her father and I were to have had her in our lives. My time with her was over, though I was sure we would stay in touch. I kept thinking I should be sad, but I felt content more than anything. Now, I'm not saying I won't want to call her every day, and she'll probably die without me, but why ruin something so perfect trying to stay together? ~ Rob Thomas

Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right. ~ Rob Thomas

It's the heart that really matters in the end. ~ Rob Thomas

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. ~ Rob Thomas

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids. ~ Rob Thomas

Hey, a grown man can miss his mommy without shame. ~ Rob Thomas

The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back. ~ Rob Thomas

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary. ~ Rob Thomas

Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons. ~ Rob Thomas

Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering. ~ Rob Thomas

Have I heard that grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate; think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.'" Veronica wasn't sure which play the quote was from, but she knew exactly what it meant: You get tough. You get even. You get tough. Had Mars Investigations been the sort of outfit that bothered to draft a list of its "Core Values," that would've been a top fiver. ~ Rob Thomas

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot - or the other fist - to fall knew how to sense danger. ~ Rob Thomas

When is the answer ever less cheese? ~ Rob Thomas

Congratulations, Veronica. You just ordered your first call girl. ~ Rob Thomas

You always have a choice," she spat. "You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting. ~ Rob Thomas

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene. ~ Rob Thomas

We're all looking for something, something to be. ~ Rob Thomas

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~ Rob Thomas

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses. ~ Rob Thomas

You couldn't think of a single thing to do for her? Not with all your supposed ingenuity, your willingness to see the rules as profoundly optional? ~ Rob Thomas

I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good. ~ Rob Thomas

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. ~ Thomas Dubay

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we're doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the 'thick of thin things.' In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes. ~ Thomas S. Monson

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man. ~ Rob Ford

Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human. ~ Matthew Thomas

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ... ~ Thomas Bernhard

The secret of success is focus of purpose. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea. ~ Dylan Thomas

We were in the gondolas at The Venetian. You said you couldn't swim, that I'd have to save you if we capsized."
His Adam's apple jumped. "Yeah."
"I was terrified for you."
"I know. You hung onto me so tight I could barely breathe."
I drew back so I could see his face.
"Why do you think we stayed on them for so long?" he asked. "You were practically sitting in my lap."
"Can you swim?"
He laughed quietly. "Of course I can swim. I don't even think the water was that deep."
"It was all a ruse. You're tricky, David Ferris."
"And you're funny, Evelyn Thomas." His face relaxed, his eyes softening again. ~ Kylie Scott

But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth
Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked
They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid
Before my numbers called, historys made
Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die
Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky
To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why
Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame?
Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite
Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is. ~ Nas

Confessions of an Anglo-Welshman For my own country's part Her lore and language I should have by heart. 'Twas she who raised me, Built me bone by bone Out of the teeming earth, the dreaming stone. Even at my christening it was she decreed Uprooted I should bleed. And yet for another's sake No wound deletes, No patriotism dulls The true and the beautiful Bequeathed to me by Blake, Shelley and Shakespeare and the ravished Keats. 1943 ~ R.S. Thomas

A man full of hope will be full of action. ~ Thomas Brooks

Charlotte Holmes. I thought I might see you here."

The voice belonged to Lord Ingram, but slightly raspy, as if he were under the weather―or recovering from a night of hard drinking.

She turned around slowly. "Hullo, Ash."

A complicated pleasure, this man. ~ Sherry Thomas

If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed. ~ Gary Thomas

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. ~ Chris Rock

Every day we are surrounded with numerous opportunities to act dishonestly. The Lord did not intend for us to live in a world where temptation didn't exist; it was Satan's plan to rob us of our free agency. The Lord's plan was to 'prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.' (Abr. 3:25.) Even though we cannot always control our trials and temptations, we can control how we react to them. No matter how strong the motivation or how tempting the opportunity, we can still behave honestly… As we develop a Christlike character, we, too, can learn to make honest choices no matter how great the pressures and opportunity. ~ Marshall B. Romney

Everything is some kind of a plot, man. ~ Thomas Pynchon

But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose ~ Thomas Hardy

The sweeter sound of woman's praise. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

We must, however, reflect on what is happening. It is an urgent matter, especially for those of us who still live in a meaningful, even a numinous, earth community. We have not spoken. Nor even have we seen clearly what is happening. The issue goes far beyond economics, or commerce, or poetics, or an evening of pleasantries as we look out over a scenic view. Something is happening beyond all this. We are losing splendind and intimate modes of divine presence. We are, perhaps, losing ourselves. ~ Thomas Berry

For the libertarian, the state is a guardian entrusted with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, and hence a permanent threat to individual liberty. Whereas for the (modern) liberal, the state is a social apparatus for protecting people from destitution, discrimination, and disease. Those who distrust the state, believe the government should provide only those services that individuals or informal groups cannot provide for themselves. Those who trust it, believe the government should provide as many services as people in need require. ~ Thomas Szasz

I was thinking back to my own childhood in Ethiopia. The church services of our small Christian Indian community were interminable and conducted in an ancient language, Syriac. My parents and the other Indian Christians in Ethiopia knew the liturgy by heart, it was what they had grown up with. And to stand together in an Ethiopian church that they rented, to worship together in a language that could be traced to St. Thomas and to Jerusalem, was an affirmation of who they were, a connection to a corner of India so far away from Africa. ~ Abraham Verghese

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean ~ Thomas Jefferson

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day. ~ Thomas Jefferson