Turreted Building Quotes & Sayings

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. — Tom Kettle

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. — Rita Dove

Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper. — Maya Angelou

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people. — Andy Taylor

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald

But look, I cleared out all y'all that got in the way/And y'all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre — Jon Connor

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen. — Eliza Coupe

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.' — Mitchel Musso

The problem with nationalism is not the desire for self-determination itself, but the particular epistemological illusion that you can be at home, you can be understood, only among people like yourself. What is wrong with nationalism is not the desire to be a master in your own house, but the conviction that only people like yourself deserve to be in the house. — Michael Ignatieff

Since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate. — Ian McEwan