Thon Quotes

1. "Claire, I don't want to lose that look. I promise, I'll never demand it again...I don't want that. I want what I have today. I'm concerned that, when all my confessions are out—it'll be gone. ---Anthony"
Author: Aleatha Romig

2. "But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills,And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"
Author: Alfred Tennyson

3. "I started zipping up my pants when something occurred to me. "I'm wearing a purple thong." "You're wearing a purple thong?" Jack raised an eyebrow, but since I was drunk, I couldn't read on his emotions. I didn't know if it was an intrigued I'd-like-to-see-more eyebrow, or a disapproving you're-a-huge-slut eyebrow. "Yeah. Wanna see?"
Author: Amanda Hocking

4. "I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions."
Author: Anna Kendrick

5. "Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon."
Author: Barbara Olson

6. "I blinked down the street where the jeep had vanished. I felt the unexplainable urge to storm after them and do something I'd hoped I'd regret -like choke Marcie with her stupid red thong."
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

7. "There was precious little nobility in the features of the High King's fleshy face. Like his body, his face was broad and heavy, with a wide stub of a nose, a thick brow, and deep-set eyes that seemed to look out at the world with suspicion and resentment. His hair and beard were just beginning to turn grey, but they were well combed and glistening with fresh oil perfumed... heavily... He was broad of shoulder and body, built like a squat turret, round and thick from neck to hips. He wore a sleeveless coat of gilded chain mail over his tunic... Over the mail was a harness of gleaming leather, with silver buckles and ornaments. A jewelled sword hung at his side. His sandals had gold tassels on their thongs."
Author: Ben Bova

8. "The marathon can humble you."
Author: Bill Rodgers

9. "Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people."
Author: Bryan Batt

10. "Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon"
Author: Carter Lindberg

11. "...in all the Kalahari Desert, only six true hunters remained. The renegades agreed to let Louis hang around, an offer he took to the extreme; once installed, Louis acted like an unemployed in-law, basically squatting with the Bushmen for the next four years...He learned to keep his campfire burning and tent zipped even on the most sweltering nights, since packs of hyenas were known to drag people from open shelters and tear out their throats. He leaned that if you stumble upon an angry lioness and her cubs, you stand tall and make her back down, but in the same situation with a rhino, you run like hell. (p. 234) Know why people run marathons? he said... Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles... intravascular surgery, they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human- which means it's a superpower all humans possess. (p. 239)"
Author: Christopher McDougall

12. "I once saw a Betsey Johnson runway show that featured thongs and "ass cleavage," and I thought, This is the future."
Author: Cintra Wilson

13. "It was mad. It was inconceivable. Anthony began to detect in himself the symptoms of a disease he had sworn never to acquire--lovesickness--and thus berated himself for a clodpoll to so fall into the gilded trap."
Author: Dominique Frost

14. "Elhagyni az otthonunkat súlyosan túlértékelt cselekvés."
Author: Ernest Cline

15. "Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor.Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again."
Author: George R.R. Martin

16. "For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight."
Author: George Sheehan

17. "In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race."
Author: Haile Gebrselassie

18. "Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants."
Author: Hermann Ebbinghaus

19. "You have cable?" He nodded toward her TV. She tossed him the clicker. "Sure do. And if I remember, there's a Godzilla marathon on TBS tonight." "Sweet," the vampire said, kicking his legs out. "I always root for the monster." She smiled at him. "Me, too."
Author: J.R. Ward

20. "Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat."
Author: James Van Der Beek

21. "The twins, Taylor and Tyler, threw confetti in my face, music began to blare, and then I saw the worst thing I'd ever seen in my life: Trenton in a man thong, covered in about ten pounds of body glitter. He had on a cheap, yellow wig, and Cami was laughing her head off, cheering him on."
Author: Jamie McGuire

22. "You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?Pierre Anthon"
Author: Janne Teller

23. "How come you girls want to be dating?.. First you fall in love, then you start dating, then you fall out of love, and then you split up again.Pierre Anthon - to the author and Ursula-Marie"
Author: Janne Teller

24. "The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process."
Author: Jim Walsh

25. "Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew."
Author: Julia Quinn

26. "This Author has come to the conclusion that there are rakes, and there are Rakes.Anthony Bridgerton is a Rake.A rake (lower-case) is youthful and immature. He flaunts his exploits, behaves with utmost idiocy, and thinks himself dangerous to women.A Rake (upper-case) knows he is dangerous to women.He doesn't flaunt his exploits because he doesn't need to. He knows he will be whispered about by men and women alike, and in fact, he'd rather they didn't whisper about him at all. He knows who he is and what he has done; further recountings are, to him, redundant.He doesn't behave like an idiot for the simple reason that he isn't an idiot"
Author: Julia Quinn

27. "Isobel watched as Varen's head turned slowly toward her father. She couldn't exactlytell with the sunglasses, but she somehow knew that he had to be staring down the false Poe withone of his most penetrating "you are the essence of lameness" expressions."
Author: Kelly Creagh

28. "It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?"
Author: Leila Sales

29. "Well I see you there with the rose in your teethOne more thin gypsy thiefYes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyesI thought it was there for good so I never tried.And Jane came by with a lock of your hairShe said that you gave it to herThat night that you planned to go clear"
Author: Leonard Cohen

30. "Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote."
Author: Louise Slaughter

31. "Note to self: wear thong, render Matt speechless."
Author: M. Pierce

32. "EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?"
Author: Margaret Atwood

33. "Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race."
Author: Martin Lel

34. "I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel."
Author: Meghan Markle

35. "Miss Martin," he said. "How on earth did you get a name like Isabella?" Just one of the many things that he'd wondered about as he had sat hunched behind his desk over the weekend.She shook her head, obviously confused by the change of subject, but then smiled. "Ah, it was my mother. I received my imagination from her. She was constantly telling me stories about Spanish princesses and English princes. She named me Isabella after the Spanish Queen."See, Anthony thought, nothing so extravagant that it should be pondered to death over an entire weekend."
Author: Mia Ryan

36. "Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded."
Author: Mike Myers

37. "You're wearing a lace thong?" Dolly clapped her hands. "That's absolutely perfect for romance."
Author: Peggy Webb

38. "Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!"
Author: Richard E. Grant

39. "So . . . what is this fire river called?""The Phlegethon," [Annabeth] said. "You should concentrate on going down.""The Phlegethon?" [Percy] shinnied along the ledge. They'd made it roughly a third of the way down the cliff—still high enough up to die if they fell. "Sounds like a marathon for hawking spitballs.""Please don't make me laugh," she said."Just trying to keep things light."
Author: Rick Riordan

40. "The Persian VersionTruth-loving Persians do not dwell uponThe trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.As for the Greek theatrical traditionWhich represents that summer's expeditionNot as a mere reconnaisance in forceBy three brigades of foot and one of horse(Their left flank covered by some obsoleteLight craft detached from the main Persian fleet)But as a grandiose, ill-starred attemptTo conquer Greece - they treat it with contempt;And only incidentally refuteMajor Greek claims, by stressing what reputeThe Persian monarch and the Persian nationWon by this salutary demonstration:Despite a strong defence and adverse weatherAll arms combined magnificently together."
Author: Robert Graves

41. "I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!--Mat Cauthon"
Author: Robert Jordan

42. "Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon"
Author: Robert Jordan

43. "If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape."
Author: Sammy Hagar

44. "He imagined the scene at the gates of heaven to be not unlike that at the finish line of a long and grueling marathon: everyone high-fiving, hugging, collapsing, elated that it's over, yes, it's finally over, pouring cups of water over one another's heads and saying, Holy shit, dude, that was fucking brutal. I am never doing that again."
Author: Shalom Auslander

45. "Don't push me, Savitar.(Apollymi)And don't push me. You may be a goddess by birth, but I'm a lot more than just a Chthonian and you know that. I survived a hell you can't even imagine and its fires forged a core of steel within me. You want to battle, pick up your sword. But remember the number of gods before you who sought to kill me and failed. (Savitar)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

46. "My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him."
Author: Tate Donovan

47. "I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines."
Author: Terry Jones

48. "I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that."
Author: Tim Heidecker

49. "I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since."
Author: Tyler Perry

50. "Be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He was separated from his wife (he has since married Susan B. Anthony III). He had a son about ten years old whom I met once when he was visiting his father (on some holiday"
Author: Whittaker Chambers

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