7 And 7 Turnpike Troubadours Quotes

#1. Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Orson Welles

#2. A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Henry Grunwald

#3. Candide, terrified, amazed, desperate, all bloody, all palpitating, said to himself: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Well,

Voltaire

#4. It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

Tao Lin

#5. Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.

Ellie Rose McKee

#6. Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.

John Frederick Boyes

#7. We have made many glass vessels ... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

Evangelista Torricelli

#8. God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

Lee Kuan Yew

#10. I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.

Charlie Worsham

#11. The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

C.S. Lewis

#12. You'll make better art after a day at the office than you will after a lifetime in an ivory tower.

Sara Benincasa