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Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.
— Robert James Thomson
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
— Virgil Thomson
A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.
— Joseph John Thomson
The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.
— Robert James Thomson
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
— Brett Lee
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
— J. Arthur Thomson
I find that plans kill the spirit of an adventure because the experience has to measure up to the plan and is not of itself.
— Lesley Thomson
There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way.
— Rupert Thomson
That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were.
— Rupert Thomson
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
— Virgil Thomson
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
— J. Arthur Thomson
The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.
— Meldrim Thomson Jr.
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
— Edwin Keith Thomson
The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.
— Robert James Thomson
People think copywriters are obsessed with words. This isn't correct.
The word should be 'infatuated' - it fits the context better. — Jamie Thomson
To be reminded of life's mysteries was a delicious gift.
— Lynn Thomson
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom
— Desson Thomson
If you think your job requires you to endanger people, get another job.
— Robert James Thomson
The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.
— Meldrim Thomson Jr.
England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.
— Jeff Thomson
Privilege always involves responsibility.
— John Arthur Thomson
I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax.
— Robert James Thomson
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.
— Robert James Thomson
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
— James Thomson
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
— James Thomson
I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.
— Robert James Thomson
Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.
— Josh Thomson
Life is a choice ... it's a choice to be successful.
— Josh Thomson
Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
— Jeff Thomson
My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.
— Robert James Thomson
There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.
— Robert James Thomson
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.
— Virgil Thomson
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.
— Edward Thomson
The trouble with the past is, it's never really over. Just keeps coming back and biting you in the ass.
— James Whitfield Thomson
Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility.
— Robert James Thomson
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
— Virgil Thomson
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
— Virgil Thomson
I don't see any possible excuse for any driver anywhere to endanger people.
— Robert James Thomson
The lies you wanted to hear were the easiest ones to tell.
— James Whitfield Thomson
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
— Arthur Lismer
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
— Charles Darwin
I've got money so I'm a Conservative.
— Roy Thomson
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
— Virgil Thomson
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
— J. Arthur Thomson
I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.
— Robert James Thomson
Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death
— James Thomson
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
— James Thomson
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
— Virgil Thomson
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
— James Thomson
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
— Bobby Thomson
When I came back from deathit was morning,
the back door was open
and one of the buttons of my shirt had disappeared. — Derick S. Thomson
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
— Virgil Thomson
Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation,
— Desson Thomson
I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.
— Robert James Thomson
When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.
— Robert James Thomson
That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)
— Devoney Looser
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
— Virgil Thomson
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.
— Robert James Thomson
Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.
— Robert James Thomson
The basic human craving is for meaning.
— Colin Argyle Thomson
Run the race set before you with integrity, and you will make a difference.
— Douglas W. Thomson
I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.
— Peggy Guggenheim
...there is no logic to love.
— Lynn Thomson
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
— J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
— J. Arthur Thomson
Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.
— June Thomson
I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do one of those, doing my own stunts and training.
— Cassi Thomson
Like having your own licence to print money.
— Roy Thomson
Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
— Mike Brearley
I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.
— Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson Of Fleet
Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.
— Harold Town
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
— J. Arthur Thomson
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
— Heather Thomson
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.
— Robert James Thomson
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
— Desson Thomson
You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
— Edward Thomson
I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
— Jeff Thomson
The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.
— Rupert Thomson
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
— James Thomson
Her smiles were blurred, as if seen from a moving train. Her eyes always creased at the edges by dreams of leaving.
— Rupert Thomson
It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.
— Thomson
He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.
— Rupert Thomson
