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Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
— Thornton Wilder
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
— Kate Thornton
Not-Dave G. gave Praline a long stare, the kind of stare that telegraphed not just lust, but three or four possible sex acts.
— Marshall Thornton
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
— Thornton Wilder
Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Yes, the show must go on, but it's also important to survive until the curtain calls.
— Marshall Thornton
Heaven's my destination.
— Thornton Wilder
At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
— Billy Bob Thornton
It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud.
— Marshall Thornton
I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and cleverly.
— Marshall Thornton
You're never going to get from the industry what you give to it. But it's worth it; you just have to be realistic.
— Tiffany Thornton
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
— Thornton Wilder
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
— Thornton Wilder
No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
— Tiffany Thornton
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.
— Warwick Thornton
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
— Thornton Wilder
There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
— Thornton Wilder
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
— Warwick Thornton
When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
— Billy Bob Thornton
At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
— Linda Fisher Thornton
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
— Billy Bob Thornton
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
— Thornton Wilder
Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
— Billy Bob Thornton
The more civilized Man becomes, the more violent he becomes.
— Stanley S. Thornton
Yeah, that's why I unbuckled my belt because I thought he could teach me about weights.
— Marshall Thornton
My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
— Billy Bob Thornton
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
— Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.
— Billy Bob Thornton
If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. That's how I'd wanted my life to be.
— Marshall Thornton
Once in a thousand times, it's interesting.
— Thornton Wilder
How's your love life?" I asked."What love life? You keep ruining it."
That was the answer I was hoping for. I even hoped it was true. — Marshall Thornton
I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.
— Billy Bob Thornton
That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.
— Thornton W. Burgess
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
— Thornton Wilder
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
— Thornton Wilder
When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
— Warwick Thornton
But while they continued staring into one another's face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.
— Thornton Wilder
It's just that there were times when he liked to keep his masturbatory routine old school.
— Marshall Thornton
I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.
— Billy Bob Thornton
In love's service, only the wounded soldier can serve.
— Thornton Wilder
Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.
— Lawrence Thornton
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
— Thornton Wilder
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Martin's interest in the movie returned. Rydar pumped, Jax squirmed happily, and Martin added another dollop of Vaseline to his palm.
— Marshall Thornton
This saying is both true and terse:There's nothing bad but might be worse. — Thornton Burgess
Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
— Billy Bob Thornton
How was church?" I asked."I'm going to hell."
I shrugged like it was of no importance. "That's good. You'd be lonely in heaven without me. — Marshall Thornton
People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.
— Billy Bob Thornton
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
— Thornton Wilder
Getting fucked really isn't my thing.""Well, thank you for faking it. You're a good actor. — Marshall Thornton
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
— Thornton Wilder
My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I'm not much of a drinker, so I'm going to eat seven pounds of pork.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I may not be six four but I can certainly act six four.
— Marshall Thornton
What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.
— Thornton W. Burgess
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
— Thornton Wilder
It's depressing to be so depressed.
— Marshall Thornton
I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
— Billy Bob Thornton
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder
Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl.
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn't want to know what was underneath.
— Marshall Thornton
I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
— Thornton Wilder
Sometimes the truth was like a band-aid in need to removal.
— Marshall Thornton
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
— Thornton Wilder
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.
— Mark Thornton
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
— Thornton Wilder
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.
— Billy Bob Thornton
I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Speechless, castaway and wrya spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.
— Billy Bob Thornton
He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.
— Stanley S. Thornton
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
— Thornton Wilder
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
— Thornton Wilder
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense. — Billy Bob Thornton
You want to fuck me?" he asked."The thought crossed my mind," I replied honestly. — Marshall Thornton
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
— Thornton Wilder
Dinosaur/Mammoth: "It's cold.
— Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
— Thornton Wilder
I crossed my fingers. On both hands. Then my toes. I may have even crossed my eyes.
— Marshall Thornton
The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Take your clothes off. Slowly," he told Carter.So this is what romantic is, Carter thought. Kissing and watching each other strip. — Marshall Thornton
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
— Thornton T. Munger
Nice people always make me want to do bad things.
— Marshall Thornton
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
— Thornton Wilder
Will you be my slave?""No,"Praline said.
"But thank you for offering. — Marshall Thornton