Scarlett Thomas quote: "But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time."

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic l...
SCARLETT THOMAS

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a nove...
SCARLETT THOMAS

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using...
SCARLETT THOMAS

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
SCARLETT THOMAS

Not all events are stories.
SCARLETT THOMAS

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina an...
SCARLETT THOMAS

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the...
SCARLETT THOMAS

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more ...
SCARLETT THOMAS

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is ...
SCARLETT THOMAS

…Just walking one short path could make you feel hopeful, frustrated, bored, excited, or even noth...
SCARLETT THOMAS

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.
SCARLETT THOMAS

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
SCARLETT THOMAS

It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Chocolate cake is the bomb!
SCARLETT POMERS

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lo...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
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SCARLETT DUNN

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
JOHN SCARLETT

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Girl With a Pearl Earring.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Well, the pot is calling the kettle black...!
SCARLETT O'HARA

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't ...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Satan is a slick character. To me, he's actually very appealing. He's not scary. That's kind of how ...
SCARLETT KNIGHT

Just knowing he will not be here Christmas morning when they unwrap the gifts and that type of thing...
ANNETTE SCARLETT

Just the bond that he had with the kids, I did not realize how strong that was and how much he did w...
ANNETTE SCARLETT

As a married couple you kinda take for granted the little moments. Just being able to come home and ...
ANNETTE SCARLETT

Iron Jawed Angels.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately ga...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

It's a lovely, lovely place to come and visit and the shopping is fantastic. I'm very happy to be he...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

If you're comfortable with yourself, then it's sexy. Maybe people think I look sexy because I feel s...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Hi, we've just gotten into a car accident, um, we're way in Disneyland Drive.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I said, 'Women don't normally sleep in a bra. I can't wake up in this scene wearing a bra, it's ridi...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars following us,
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Woody would be very happy if I wore the kind of dress I wore in the movie, white and linen, but I do...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

You must never underestimate your opposition.
JOHN SCARLETT

I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives....
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

The fender-bender was induced by the paparazzi, who chased her for 45 minutes,
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

It's a very emotional and touching scene when the chaplain comes to her and explains her son has die...
SCARLETT KNIGHT

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.
SCARLETT DAWN

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in th...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they'...
SCARLETT POMERS

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I believe in finding a soulmate.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

It’s the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn’t there, we would have nothi...
SCARLETT DAWN

Keep a big glass of cool water close while reading this one. —Margaret Smith
SCARLETT AVERY

Best series ever so far. —Desi
SCARLETT AVERY

Hang on for a wild ride full of domineering and sexy as sin stallions! —Speedefrog
SCARLETT AVERY

Hot, raunchy and funny. —GiveMeBooks
SCARLETT AVERY

Our office does not appoint special prosecutors, nor do we have jurisdiction to investigate the crim...
JUANITA SCARLETT

We are studying the opinion.
JUANITA SCARLETT

I love the whole DJ vibe thing.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I'm not mad at him. I think he's a guy that's starting his TV career and he's making a bit of an exc...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES

Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES

Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS

My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS

Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS

I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS

You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS

I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS

I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ

The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL

The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

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