Tim Tharp Quotes

Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight ... The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors. ~ Tim Tharp

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts. ~ Tim Tharp

The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything. ~ Tim Tharp

I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business ~ Tim Tharp

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing. ~ Tim Tharp

The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you. ~ Tim Tharp

My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time ~ Tim Tharp

We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment. ~ Tim Tharp

I like you so much, she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, not because she really does love me but because she just wants to say it. Of course, she can't, though. Not when I haven't said it first. ~ Tim Tharp

I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog. ~ Tim Tharp

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. ~ Tim Tharp

She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's how I know I'll have to give her up. ~ Tim Tharp

The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow. ~ Tim Tharp

Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late. ~ Tim Tharp

it gets a little tiresome when you're so high you go to the movies and look up at the marquee and think the starting times are the ticket prices. I mean, I remember standing there going, 'Ten-fifteen? What kind of price is ten dollars and fifteen cents?' It's a hassle."

"Yeah, one time I was putting gas in my car and thought the number of gallons was the price. I even got into an argument with the cashier. It was hilarious. ~ Tim Tharp

Finally, she's like, I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always know what to do. That doesn't mean they don't love you. ~ Tim Tharp

I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out. ~ Tim Tharp

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was. ~ Tim Tharp

Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else. ~ Tim Tharp

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself. ~ Tim Tharp

What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life? ~ Tim Tharp

We all want something that sticks ~ Tim Tharp

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the whole world - for a night. ~ Tim Tharp

Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have. ~ Tim Tharp

Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe. ~ Tim Tharp

This looks interesting, I say, but what I'm really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What's next, anime? ~ Tim Tharp

Your eyes are a blue universe, and I'm just falling into them. No parachute. I don't need one because I'm never going to hit the ground. ~ Tim Tharp

I did it! I stopped time.

[Hampton Green] ~ Tim Tharp

That's how it is online - there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void. ~ Tim Tharp

Cassidy is the best girlfriend ever. I've dated her for a full two months longer than anyone else. She's smart and witty and original and can chug a beer faster than most guys I know. On top of that, she is absolutely beautiful. I mean spanktacular. Talk about pure colors. She's high-definition. Scandinavian blond hair, eyes as blue as fiords, skin like vanilla ice cream or flower petals or sugar frosting - or really not like anything else but just her skin. It makes my hair ache. Of course, she does believe in astrology, but I don't even care about that. It's a girl thing. I think of it like she has constellations and fortunes whirling around inside her. ~ Tim Tharp

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt. ~ Tim Tharp

She's still smiling her little smile, and it strikes me that, actually, she is drunk, not on alcohol, but on her St. Louis hopes and dreams. I wouldn't sober her up for anything, but she doesn't need me anymore. She can hang on to her dreams by herself now. ~ Tim Tharp

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new. ~ Tim Tharp

That's all right,' she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow ~ Tim Tharp

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit. ~ Tim Tharp

Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now. ~ Tim Tharp

I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing. ~ Tim Tharp

That type of dream just kind of wears out with time like a favorite old T-shirt. One day, it's nothing but tatters and all you can do is throw it over on the rag pile with the others. ~ Tim Tharp

And then there are the ex-girlfriends. They look incredible, every one of them. ~ Tim Tharp

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination. ~ Tim Tharp

No,' I say l. 'It's not all right. But I couldn't help it ~ Tim Tharp

It's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count. ~ Tim Tharp

See, this is the other side of the coin. This is a girl's downfall. The guy goes soft in the head and starts talking to her like a moron and she wants to take care of him. He's just cuddly fool who can't make it without her. ~ Tim Tharp

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me. ~ Tim Tharp

Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone. ~ Tim Tharp

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you. ~ Tim Tharp

She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake. ~ Tim Tharp

See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread. ~ Tim Tharp

Besides, I'm not looking to get saved. I'm only going with her because it's what you do when you're in a relationship. You know? You slide into the third pew from the front and sit there thinking about how desperate all these people are to feel like something loves them. They'll believe all kinds of hocus-pocus. But your girlfriend likes it, and you like her, so you do it. It's called compromise. The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it. ~ Tim Tharp

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out. ~ Tim Tharp

it's not too late for me. ~ Tim Tharp

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen. ~ Tim Tharp

Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.
"I can't dance like Cassidy," she says.
"Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect. ~ Tim Tharp

That's what the prom is - St. Patrick's Day for the young. ~ Tim Tharp

I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you. ~ Tim Tharp

Those colors of hers really begin their attack on me now, ripping through my skin, electrifying my bloodstream, sending sparks zapping around in my stomach. I take a long pull on my whisky but I can't keep a hard-on from starting. I only mention this because I have a theory that the hard-on is the number one reason for sexism down through history. I mean, it is seriously impossible to really soak in a girl's ideas, no matter how deep or true, when you have a stiffy coming on. ~ Tim Tharp

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea. ~ Tim LaHaye

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me. ~ Tim Duncan

What's this whole Parrot Head phenomenon about, anyway?" asked Crease. "It's kind of like AA in reverse. ~ Tim Dorsey

The goal is to connect with something old so it becomes new. Look and imagine. ~ Twyla Tharp

An introspective man who doesn't keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell ~ Tim Lucas

She tends to think the sanest policy is a sort of spiritual triage, saving your efforts for those who are likely to make it with a little immediate aid - a small loan, a job recommendation, a couch to crash on for a week or two - and dispassionately ignoring the moribund. But what do you do if you don't have the option to walk away, to hang up or hit IGNORE, because you're bound to someone by obligation or love? What ~ Tim Kreider

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees. ~ Tim Ferriss

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. ~ Twyla Tharp

I really love the EMS Vocoder 2000, which is a pretty nice little box. You put one thing in one end and another in the other end, and you're able to change vocals by the sound and do a lot - it's just got a great sound. But the thing is, it's a bit clunky, so it's kind of hard to use it. ~ Tim Gane

It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way. ~ Twyla Tharp

I'm saying you got a darkness, you, Tim Bayliss, you got a darkness inside of you. You gotta know the darker, uglier sides of yourself. You gotta recognize them, so that they're not constantly sneaking up on you. You gotta LOVE 'EM, 'cause they're part of you, because along with your virtues, they make you who you are. Virtue isn't virtue unless it slams up against vice. So consequently, your virtue's not real virtue. Until it's been tested. . . tempted. ~ Lt. Frank Pembleton

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box ~ Twyla Tharp

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin. ~ Danny DeVito

Fight scarcity power and corruption; correct externalities; try to maximise information; get the incentives right; engage with other countries; and most of all embrace markets, which do most of these jobs at the same time. ~ Tim Harford

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes. ~ Tim Heidecker

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective, ~ Tim Tebow

running parallel to the medieval ~ Tim Severin

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. ~ Twyla Tharp

To life lived fully: to laughter, to have loved and lost, to be remembered for the good fight. ~ Tim Heaton

Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally. ~ Tim Hudson

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work. ~ Tim Dorsey

If faith is your motivation, share that. ~ Tim Kaine

Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression. ~ Tim Sandlin

The greatest risk is not taking any. ~ Tim Fargo

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms. ~ Tim Hetherington

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me. ~ Tim McGraw

Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have. ~ Tim Gunn

The people who can finish and finish at the same pace or stronger than when they started, those are the ones who are going to succeed; those are the ones who are going to be great. ~ Tim Tebow

Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three. ~ Tim Kring

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing. ~ Twyla Tharp

So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he's talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he's someone I can trust and follow this thing he's talking about all the time. ~ Brad Warner

With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book. ~ Eric A. Hanushek

It's never fun to read death threats. ~ Tim Heidecker