Thomas Merton Quotes

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Thomas Merton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

Topics

LifeHeartEyesLightDeathChill

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

Jenny Zhang

PeopleGrowing UpChaosFacePoverty

I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.

John Grisham

TimeWifeYellowWritingReading

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.

John Ortberg

LifeSoulCareYouMoreBecause

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.

John Madden

FreeDeepYouKnowRunBeat

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

DoneFactLegitimateMakesBebop

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.

Ann Callis

WorkFamilyWomenImportantPay

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

Tracy K. Smith

ThinkingEnoughLongPlaceWatching

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Ron Howard

AchievementThinkGeniusTrueAround

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

Miguel Cabrera

MeYouLookKindSwingMatter

I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

Mija

SongThinkBetterNewLastThan

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

Mike Birbiglia

TimeWifeWritingBrooklynKindShe

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

Ariana Grande

LoveThinkLookButtLovelyJeans

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