James Thornton > Quotes

“Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.”
― James Thornton

“But most of all it was
the flooding and puddling
and pooling into
each other after.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“Listening to the song
of the mountain pines
who would want
to return
to the noise of men?”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“Maybe it's easier to murder something
When you don't call it by its true name.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“This means that thousands of wine firms must compete to sell their products through a relatively small number of highly concentrated distributors.”
― James Thornton, American Wine Economics: An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry

“Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.”
― James Thornton

“Purring again, you come
and nuzzle me
soft and black
and I call you Kali.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“One hundred million Americans drink wine. About eleven million of these do so daily, and another forty-five million imbibe at least once a week. Per capita wine consumption has increased each year since 1994, even during the severe recession of 2007–9. Total wine consumption in the United States is now higher than in any other country in the world, but per capita consumption still lags behind thirty-two other wine-consuming nations, which suggests that there is plenty of room for the industry to grow in the future.”
― James Thornton, American Wine Economics: An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry

“WINE FIRMS A wine firm is an entity that produces and sells wine.”
― James Thornton, American Wine Economics: An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry

“Ninety percent of wine produced in the United States is sold to retailers and consumers through distributors,”
― James Thornton, American Wine Economics: An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry

“A decrease in the amount of time required to search for a wine product lowers the opportunity cost of choosing to purchase it, and therefore gives wine consumers an economic incentive to buy more of it.”
― James Thornton, American Wine Economics: An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry

“What have I kept?
My freedom
my lover
my wide-eyed sense of wonder.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“The sea is welcoming and mothering, I think when I am lively. The sea is hostile and threatening, I think when I am tired.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“the street that had to accommodate people all day
now vividly alone
and this is how I like it.”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“How will I survive
if I make my happiness
depend on being listened to?”
― James Thornton, Waymarks

“An idle genius is an oxymoron.”
― James Thornton