Thom Quotes

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. ~ Thom Yorke

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its
foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now. ~ Robert Jordan

What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily. ~ Thom Yorke

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oure eryan! Hircus Civis Eblanensis! He had buckgoat paps on him, soft ones for orphans. Ho, Lord! Twins of his bosom. Lord save us! And ho! Hey? What all men. Hot? His tittering daugh-ters of. Whawk?
Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flitter-ing bats, fieldmice bawk talk. Ho! Are you not gone ahome?
What Thom Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffey-ing waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughter-
sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who wereShem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now!
Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night! ~ James Joyce

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. ~ Thom Yorke

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something. ~ Thom Yorke

when you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits. ~ Thom Jones

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it. ~ Thom Yorke

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ~ Thom Yorke

If we want to see where we went wrong
We needn't look to far,
For where we'll be and where we've been
Is always where we are.
And everything that comes your way
Is something you once gave,
Somebody feels the water
Everytime you make a wave. ~ Thom Bishop

I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke. ~ Thom Yorke

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. ~ Thom Gunn

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*. ~ Thom Yorke

It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun. ~ Thom Yorke

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional. ~ Thom Yorke

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for. ~ Thom Mayne

As a church member, I am responsible for encouraging and leading my entire family to worship together in the church. ~ Thom S. Rainer

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure. ~ Perry Moore

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. ~ Thom Yorke

I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself. ~ Thom Yorke

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music. ~ Thom Yorke

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. ~ Thom Gunn

All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. ~ Thom Yorke

That's the difference between love and hunger," she says. "Hunger is a story you gt stuck in. Love's the story that takes you somewhere new. ~ Kai Cheng Thom

Human behavior, ninety-eight percent of it, is an abomination. ~ Thom Jones

Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks. ~ Thom S. Rainer

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality. ~ Thom Mayne

If you don't know what those old occupations were, how they were done, and how they interacted with the passersby, you're not prepared to write a historical novel. A historical figure doesn't pass through a blank countryside. That means you, the novelist, must learn by research what the whole place was like in those times. As much as you can, you must be like someone who has lived there, because you're going to be not just the storyteller but also the tour guide taking your readers through the past. ~ James Alexander Thom

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. ~ Thom Mayne

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ~ Thom Mayne

An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are repeating the mistakes of the 1760's, 1850's, and 1920's. The author is a brilliant writer and is so good at explaining even the most complex subjects in a compelling & easy to understand way. The next crash will be painful but it's important to understand what is being done to us, and how we can learn from history and take action. ~ Thom Hartmann

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. ~ Thom Filicia

Nothing should be perfect. I think that's the most important thing. I do wear my jackets almost exaggeratedly short. So that's probably the most mussed up. Along with, you know, not ironing my shirt. ~ Thom Browne

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating. ~ Thom Andersen

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician ~ Thom Yorke

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is. ~ Thom Andersen

Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn't have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn't have to push - unless it's moving, then let her go first. ~ Thom Browne

I tell you what's really ridiculous
going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. ~ Thom Yorke

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices, ~ Randy Thom

One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent. ~ Thom Harnett

Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*. ~ Thom Yorke

Thom pulled nervously at his 'Kings' t-shirt. The Kings are a brutal West African gang that he follows onscreen. Such 'tourist shows', as I understand they are called, have become wildly popular in recent years, as global unrest makes actual travel less popular.

Armoured imaging teams, using tiny remote drone cameras known as 'flies', take the viewer inside the violent, gang-controlled regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. Using a touch screen, viewers (or 'zoners' as they are sometimes called) can follow the action from multiple angles while cheering on their favourite gang. ~ Paul Christensen

The essential point of view advanced here is this: the stability of every
living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for-
mal structure - in fact, a geometrical object - whose biochemical realization is the
living being. ~ Rene Thom

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. ~ Thom Yorke

It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it. ~ Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. ~ Thom Yorke

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die. ~ Thom Yorke

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. ~ Thom Mayne

2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a variation on the First Amendment right of free speech. (Except in certain contract and law enforcement/court situations, it's perfectly legal for human persons to lie in the United States. ~ Thom Hartmann

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul. ~ Thom Yorke

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic. ~ Thom Gunn

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded. ~ Thom Browne

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over ~ Thom Yorke

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. ~ Thom Yorke

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ~ Thom Mayne

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that. ~ Thom Mayne

He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would. ~ James Alexander Thom

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ~ Thom Mayne

Thom Browne, Michael Bastian ... all these people that I love, when I finally get to meet them, I'm like, 'You're a cool guy!' ~ Brad Goreski

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. ~ Thom Mayne

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds. ~ Thom Yorke

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives. ~ James Alexander Thom

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone's dressed down. So actually, putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance. ~ Thom Browne

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth ~ Thom Yorke

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you. ~ Thom Yorke

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep ~ Thom Yorke

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ~ Thom Yorke

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl ~ Thom Yorke

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. ~ Thom Mayne

Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey ~ Thom Yorke

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating. ~ Thom Powers

In pitch dark I go walkin' in your landscape Broken branches trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen ~ Thom Yorke

Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke. ~ Thom Yorke

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that. ~ Thom Mayne

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. ~ Thom Gunn

Electric cars have an easy minimum range of 100 miles and a typical range of closer to 200 miles. And the technology is just getting started. We fight wars all over the world for oil, and we don't even need it. That, in and of itself, is insane. ~ Thom Hartmann

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. ~ Thom Mayne

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ~ Thom Gunn

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. ~ Cyril Connolly

God has equipped us with his Holy Spirit simply to tell our own story---the good, the bad, and the real. The best part is no one can argue with us. It's our story. And when others realize you don't need a degree in evangelism, they become empowered to tell their own God-story. It's not that complicated. Maybe the early church thrived because they didn't pay people to be the professional 'church people'---they all were 'it. ~ Thom Schultz

There is more carbon in the atmosphere trapping heat and moisture than ever before in the 165,000 years of human history. ~ Thom Hartmann

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness. ~ Thom S. Rainer

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. ~ Thom Mayne

Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of. ~ Thom Yorke

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ~ Thom Mayne

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB. ~ Thom Yorke

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately. ~ Thom Yorke

My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips. ~ Thom Browne

I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you ~ Thom Yorke

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making. ~ Thom Mayne

I'm the Legendary Radio Head ~ Thom Yorke

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive. ~ Thom Yorke

Books are like this magical window that you can open no matter where you are and you fall into a different place that´s better than the one you´re trapped in. ~ Kai Cheng Thom

Much that is natural, to the will must yield.
Men manufacture both machine and soul,
And use what they imperfectly control
To dare a future from the taken routes. ~ Thom Gunn

It's estimated that the Arctic, within seven years and maybe as soon as 2015, will have its first ice-free summer in the last 700,000 years (keep in mind that humans have only been on this planet for 165,000 years). Earlier projections predicted ice-free summers as far out in the future as 2080. ~ Thom Hartmann

For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards. ~ Thom Powers

You have to know the human heart. ~ Thom Jones

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious ~ Thom Yorke

I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans. ~ Thom Yorke

Most historical accounts were written by fallible scholars, using incomplete or biased resource materials; written through the scholars' own conscious or unconscious predilections; published by textbook or printing companies that have a stake in maintaining a certain set of beliefs; subtly influenced by entities of government and society - national administrations, state education departments, local school boards, etcetera - that also wish to maintain certain sets of beliefs. To be blunt about it, much of the history of many countries and states is based on delusion, propaganda, misinformation, and omission. ~ James Alexander Thom