Mock Turtle Quotes

#1. Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Heinrich Heine

#2. Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Lewis Carroll

#3. Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#4. I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Dacia Maraini

#5. Considering myself as the reason for breaking up a friendship and marriage, I contained deep embarrassment inside.

LaQuita Cameron

#6. The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

David Letterman

#7. Love alone helped us get through life. Without it, life was simply too haphazard.

Kaori Ekuni

#8. The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

Russell Kirk

#9. They entered the profession full of hope and vigor, determined to make a difference, to heed Gandhi and be the change they wanted to see in the world.

Tabitha Suzuma

#10. For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human.

Clive Barker

#11. I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

E. G. Marshall

#12. His spells portrayed the spirit as a frail thing, contstantly under attack and in need of stength, always threatening to die inside you. Inman found this notion dismal indeed, since he had been taught by sermon and hymn to hold as truth that the soul of man never dies.

Charles Frazier

#13. Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

George Sand

#15. We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Dalai Lama

#16. Smiling too brightly,

Kristin Hannah

#17. I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

Freddie Mercury

#18. Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

#19. Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.

Francesco Petrarca