Turrin House Quotes & Sayings

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown ... Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men. — Thomas Carlyle

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees. — Dylan Lauren

Humanity can be pretty stinky. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do. -Joseph Dahr. — Ray Anyasi

I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words, I don't have the vocabulary. I think if I forced myself to read in Spanish - you know, I always say I'm going to, but I lose my patience reading in Spanish, because I really do read the way a third grader does, mouthing the words. That takes a long time! — Sandra Cisneros

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not. — Rhonda Byrne

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress. — Masiela Lusha

There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love. — Mother Teresa

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. — Ziggy Marley

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be. — Mary Karr

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio. — Billy Gibbons

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees — William Makepeace Thackeray