Worms Turning Quotes & Sayings

I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way — Emily Dickinson

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening. — Samuel Beckett

I've always wanted ... I wanted to give people joy. — Ellsworth Kelly

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head. — Geoff Zanelli

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure. — Malcolm Lowry

Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The windows of a spaceship casually frame miracles, every 92 minutes, another sunrise: a layer cake that starts with orange, then a thick wedge of blue, then the richest, darkest icing decorated with stars. The secret patterns of our planet are revealed: mountains bump up rudely from orderly plains, forests are green gashes edged with snow, rivers glint in the sunlight, twisting and turning like silvery worms. Continents splay themselves out whole, surrounded by islands sprinkled across the sea like delicate shards of shattered eggshells. — Chris Hadfield

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms? — Calvin Trillin

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left. — Justin Cronin

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live; — Mary Shelley

Both had let him feel that interesting failures may be worth more in the end than dull successes ... — Edith Wharton

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. — Hans Zimmer

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them. — Lady Gaga

A persistent rumor has circulates in the USA: There are two intelligent races living on the surface of planet Earth: the standard people and the hungarians. — Isaac Asimov