Tim Tharp quote: "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."

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thi...
TIM THARP

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but ...
TIM THARP

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of bei...
TIM THARP

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.
TIM THARP

That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the nex...
TIM THARP

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the...
TIM THARP

We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody...
TIM THARP

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.
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...
TIM THARP

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, ta...
TIM THARP

Finally, she's like, "I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always ...
TIM THARP

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so y...
TIM THARP

She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fa...
TIM THARP

That type of dream just kind of wears out with time like a favorite old T-shirt. One day, it's nothi...
TIM THARP

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the mirac...
TIM THARP

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and i...
TIM THARP

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.
TIM THARP

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.
TIM THARP

You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's call...
TIM THARP

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular N...
TIM THARP

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or ...
TIM THARP

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.
TIM THARP

She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's h...
TIM THARP

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spe...
TIM THARP

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You thi...
TIM THARP

Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.
TIM THARP

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.
TIM THARP

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever ...
TIM THARP

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anyw...
TIM THARP

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

I like you so much," she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, ...
TIM THARP

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that ...
TWYLA THARP

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
TWYLA THARP

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
TWYLA THARP

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sal...
TWYLA THARP

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
TWYLA THARP

I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeli...
TWYLA THARP

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
TWYLA THARP

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.
TWYLA THARP

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time....
TWYLA THARP

If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.
TWYLA THARP

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a cer...
TWYLA THARP

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
TWYLA THARP

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What...
TWYLA THARP

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
TWYLA THARP

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time...
TWYLA THARP

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be transla...
TWYLA THARP

Art is running away without ever leaving home.
TWYLA THARP

To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but ...
TWYLA THARP

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-mi...
TWYLA THARP

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
TWYLA THARP

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
TWYLA THARP

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done dem...
TWYLA THARP

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed...
TWYLA THARP

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the...
TWYLA THARP

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: ...
TWYLA THARP

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old un...
TWYLA THARP

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four feature...
TWYLA THARP

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
TWYLA THARP

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight agains...
TWYLA THARP

Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills t...
MARYE THARP

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That ...
TWYLA THARP

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patt...
TWYLA THARP

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
TWYLA THARP

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do so...
TWYLA THARP

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
TWYLA THARP

I see dance as glue for a community.
TWYLA THARP

I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once...
TWYLA THARP

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that ...
TWYLA THARP

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a ...
TWYLA THARP

Fifty-six percent of the audience was under 25 with 58 percent male, ... substantially above average...
JIM THARP

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the...
TWYLA THARP

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but...
TWYLA THARP

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be...
TWYLA THARP

Creativity is an act of defiance.
TWYLA THARP

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not l...
TWYLA THARP

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my...
TWYLA THARP

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for...
TWYLA THARP

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those acti...
TWYLA THARP

I just laughed when I heard it. To have Lawrence mentioned with Duke, Pittsburgh, and Florida just d...
JOHN THARP

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
TWYLA THARP

I do at least 75 push-ups a day.
TWYLA THARP

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, ...
TWYLA THARP

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways...
TWYLA THARP

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, t...
TWYLA THARP

Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that wil...
TWYLA THARP

There are a lot of people who would love to do this as a job. If we find out they are 'professional ...
DEBBIE THARP

Yes. There is no question.
JOHN THARP

I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, an...
TWYLA THARP

What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to ...
TWYLA THARP

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the...
TWYLA THARP

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male danc...
TWYLA THARP

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball...
TWYLA THARP

It's a dream to have a last game like that, to send our seniors out undefeated in front of a crowd l...
JOHN THARP

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing less...
TWYLA THARP

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
TWYLA THARP

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia G...
TWYLA THARP

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly g...
TWYLA THARP

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and s...
TWYLA THARP

I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously,...
TWYLA THARP

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got u...
TWYLA THARP

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we c...
TWYLA THARP

It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s...
TIM

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flex...
TIM VINE

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...
TIM ALLEN

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic...
TIM WISE

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am...
TIM CAHILL

I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's ...
TIM COOK

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizo...
TIM COOK

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they di...
TIM GANE

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
TIM TEBOW

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of...
TIM TEBOW

I'm an introvert on the Myers-Briggs. I've got to have time by myself to recharge. My philos...
TIM KAINE

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I...
TIM TEBOW

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When di...
TIM REID

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. ...
TIM CAHILL

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ...
TIM BISHOP

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket...
TIM MCGRAW

One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab...
TIM DALY

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're...
TIM TEBOW

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff...
TIM CURRY

When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON

I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w...
TIM HARFORD

Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to lit...
TIM SCHAFER

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hit...
TIM WAKEFIELD

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK

A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming...
TIM COPE

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
TIM VINE

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my jour...
TIM COPE

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwar...
TIM VINE

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN

It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ...
TIM COOK

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I gu...
TIM CONWAY

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were lookin...
TIM CONWAY

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was ...
TIM SCOTT

I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Dona...
TIM KAINE

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... The...
TINY TIM

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, ...
TIM DALY

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc...
TIM GRIFFIN

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there'...
TIM CAHILL

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthu...
TINY TIM

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are ...
TIM RYAN

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
TIM VINE

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images a...
TIM MURPHY

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to r...
TIM FERRISS

I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken...
TIM KAINE

Necessity is the author of change
TIM HANSEL

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they...
TIM CAHILL

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and...
TIM JOHNSON

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic ...
TIM PRATT

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe...
TIM HOWARD

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.
TIM VINE

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but v...
TIM O'BRIEN

I like bothering people and stirring things up.
TIM DALY

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.
TIM HUDSON

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't co...
TIM HUDSON

Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that ...
TIM HUDSON

I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I g...
TIM HUDSON

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a ...
TIM HUDSON

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood...
TIM HUDSON

After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money a...
TIM SCHAFER

In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth...
TIM O'BRIEN

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three...
TIM O'BRIEN

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into o...
TIM O'REILLY

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TIM VINE

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
TIM FARGO

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ...
TIM WILLOCKS

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
TIM FARGO

One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON

Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and...
TIM CRAWSHAW

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
TIM FARGO

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
TIM DALY

We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
TIM FOLEY

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
TIM GOULD

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
TIM ROBBINS

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
TIM MCCARVER

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I...
TIM ROBBINS

Necessity is the author of change.
TIM HANSEL

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
TIM BELL

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m...
TIM BERNERS

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.
TIM GUNN

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles
TIM CAHILL

I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the...
TIM HARDAWAY

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've...
TIM DUNCAN

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIM FERRISS

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
TIM ALLEN

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good l...
TIM ALLEN

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chair...
TIM HUNT

Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure inv...
TIM RYAN

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is ...
TIM JACKSON

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive...
TIM ARMSTRONG

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