Turrentine Quotes & Sayings

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. — Andrew Murphy

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people. — Jay Baruchel

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn. — Wendell Berry

I'm a real workaholic. — Laurie Anderson

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways. — Eleanor Catton

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror — John Steinbeck

No photograph can truly recall the beloved's smile. — C.S. Lewis

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.' — Richard Louv

I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too. — Fred MacMurray

And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with? — Brandan Roberston

His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval. — Gail Carriger

In this connection a few comments upon the crack female control agency known as the "Aunts" is perhaps in order. Judd - according to the Limpkin material - was of the opinion from the outset that the best and most cost-effective way to control women for reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves. — Margaret Atwood

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject. — Preston Manning