Thom Yorke Quotes

I'm able to do nothing.

Estragon: Nothing to be done.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

The result was I went nowhere.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.