Quotes by Craig Thompson

“Additional exposure in the state of Texas is certainly welcomed.”

“I dont know that you can have an encore.”

“Weve never done this before, ... We dont know if it will work. We may carry your ass all the way over to the boat and not be able to do this thing.”

“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isnt very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but its still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.”

“We have a lot of people with a lot of work left to do.”

“Our bottom line is, we dont have to do anything. If we do choose to have more than eight members, thats a decision independent of what any other conference in America is considering.”

“It gets so frustrating, week after week, year after year. I dont know what people have not noticed or dont know about the University of Utah. I think they have, with the exception of a two-point conversion, won every game theyve played and competed at a very high level and been on national television. Maybe people went to bed, I dont know.”

“I would love for them to be the first, but Im for anybody. If you play a good schedule, as determined both by the opinion pollsters and the computer polls, and you go undefeated, you should have a chance to play at the highest level.”

“I would say right now it would be a stretch to say we could have five teams in bowls.”

“Weve had a lot of people comment that maybe our league deserves an automatic bid more than leagues that have automatic bids, without naming names.”

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

And thats my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

Underwater, were drowning victims, struggling over and under each others bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that were drifting parallel but not together.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered Hush.

What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?

Barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.