Top 37 Mr Torrance Quotes
#1. He killed them, Mr. Torrance, and then committed suicide. He murdered the little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way. His leg was broken. Undoubtedly so drunk he fell downstairs. Ullman spread his hands and looked at Jack self-righteously.
Stephen King
#2. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
E. Paul Torrance
#3. If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!
Sam Torrance
#4. It teekles nozzing like Jock Torrance would like to teekle you, madame.
Stephen King
#5. Will isn't my little bastard assistant. Will is Pellinore Warthrop's little bastard assistant.
Rick Yancey
#6. One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.
Ellis Paul Torrance
#7. There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism.
T.F. Torrance
#8. Part of a woman's nature is to nurture, accept, support and love regardless of their environment. It is what makes them powerful: the ability to navigate through all adversity and still continue to grow life and eventually the universe.
DeiAmor Verus
#9. I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today.
Bocafloja
#10. Torrance emphasized that "the gospel of unconditional grace is very difficult for us, for it is so costly. It takes away from under our feet the very ground on which we want to stand, and the free will which we as human beings cherish so dearly becomes exposed as a subtle form of self-will".
Paul D. Molnar
#11. And what more transcendent aim can there be than to recall the way, the truth and the life, and to remember God?
Foundation For Inner Peace
#12. Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.
Ellis Paul Torrance
#13. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.
J. B. Torrance
#15. Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.
T.F. Torrance
#16. Worship ... is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth.
J. B. Torrance
#17. The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.
Napoleon Hill
#19. Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.
Sam Torrance
#20. Doc," Jack Torrance said. "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you." "No," Danny said. "Oh Danny, for God's sake - " "No," Danny said. He took one of his father's bloody hands and kissed it. "It's almost over.
Stephen King
#21. When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes a communion filled and overflowing with the divine love.
T.F. Torrance
#22. We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!
Sam Torrance
#23. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.
Ellis Paul Torrance
#24. He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
Jean De La Bruyere
#25. Jack Torrance looked back over his shoulder once into the impenetrable, musty-smelling darkness and thought that if there was ever a place that should have ghosts, this was it.
Stephen King
#26. Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat)
He's being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We're not really warm and fluffy over here. (Hades)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#27. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
Stephen King
#28. She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
Stephen King
#29. The Wild West didn't have much in the way of forensics; when you saw the bullet hole you'd say, 'That's prob'ly what kilt 'im.
P.K. Vandcast
#30. Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.
Ellis Paul Torrance
#31. I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on.
Seanan McGuire
#32. We are united to Christ who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and participate in the risen Humanity of Christ so that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.
T.F. Torrance
#33. You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging
Theodore Levitt
#34. Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what's wrong.
Cecelia Ahern
#36. I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school.
Zach Braff
#37. God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.
Thomas F. Torrance
