Mr Townsend Quotes

#1. The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

Devin Townsend

#2. Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is like trying to eat soup with a fork. You can get a little taste, but you cannot get nourished.

William Cameron Townsend

#3. Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Robert Townsend

#4. all her thoughts slid together again like a pack of hounds that have picked up the scent.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#5. Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

John Townsend

#6. I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sue Townsend

#7. Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

Townsend Harris

#8. By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Townsend Harris

#9. [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#11. Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#12. Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.

John Townsend

#13. With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

Stuart Townsend

#14. I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Sue Townsend

#15. I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

Sue Townsend

#16. Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

Ally Carter

#17. How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

Mary Ashley Townsend

#18. I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

#19. Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter was dropped on her head as a child and has been "a bit queer" ever since.

Sue Townsend

#20. It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

#21. I know what that feels like. I know what it's like to care about someone so much they make you desperate.

M. Leighton

#22. I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

Stuart Townsend

#23. It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

Robert Townsend

#24. [T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#25. To think of losing is to lose already.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#26. You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#27. If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

#28. Tim Howard is as sharp as a tank.

Andy Townsend

#29. A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Robert Townsend

#30. If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

Ed Townsend

#31. Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up."
George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!

Sue Townsend

#32. Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

Irving Townsend

#33. I'm not taking a chance. I feel like I can't breathe without you. I'm just doing what I need to do to survive. It's as simple as that."
"Then let me be your air," he says quietly.

M. Leighton

#34. When we are feeling at a loss in a poem, metaphor comes to the rescue. Metaphor is instructive, tactical, and interactive; it succeeds when its audience sees it as both strange and true. We need metaphor to make the error that allows us to reach beyond ourselves.

Ann Townsend