Turvey Westgarth Quotes & Sayings

The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer. — Chris Abani

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are, and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature. — Jerome K. Jerome

But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I'd never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, — Don DeLillo

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war. — Gerald Scarfe

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it. — Epictetus

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered. — Kim Novak

Discomfort without hope of betterment is not a great springboard. — Dorothy Dunnett

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want? — Ken Mehlman

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes. — Pieter Zeeman

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections. — David Foster Wallace

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do. — Trick Daddy

To find yourself, get lost for others. — Debasish Mridha