Quotes About Turnage

#1. Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

Mark-Anthony Turnage

#2. My heart leaped like the cheerleader I will never be.

Sheila Turnage

#3. If you like old cars detective, eastern North Carolina is perfect for you" he said smoothing his tie. "We have oodles of vintage vehicles around here, don't we Colonel? In fact I like to think of them as one of poverty's little perks.

Sheila Turnage

#4. Some people look like they were born on a clothes hanger. Not me. I look more like I was born in a dryer.

Sheila Turnage

#5. That's how we lose people ... detail by detail, day by day, until they're pale, pale memories.

Sheila Turnage

#6. Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six
uncles, brother, father, cousins
starts lying his fool head off. Dale says it's genetic. Miss Lana says that's poppycock.

Sheila Turnage

#7. You what?" Dale yelped, looking like I'd handed him something dead. "You ain't writing during summer vacation, are you? I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.

Sheila Turnage

#8. We can't change the past, Soldier. We can only be grateful for the life of a new day, and move on.

Sheila Turnage

#9. Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

Mark-Anthony Turnage

#10. My worst quality is impatience.

Emma Thompson

#11. If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.

Mark-Anthony Turnage

#12. My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I never forgive. I like revenge too much.

Sheila Turnage

#14. Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

George Crabbe

#15. Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Dale can choose not to worry like he chooses not to wear socks.

Sheila Turnage

#17. As I watched them together, my earth found its axis and my stars found their sky.

Sheila Turnage

#18. Anger can corrode most anything if it sits still long enough.

Sheila Turnage

#19. For me, it was a Gold Star day. I'd identified an enemy, and I'd made a life decision: I might come home tore up from fighting or late from being punished, but I'd never come home crying. So far, I ain't.

Sheila Turnage

#20. Dale can't tolerate other people throwing up. He gets what's known as the Synchronized Heaves.

Sheila Turnage

#21. Except for that, everything's going great. Well ... there's been a murder and we're out of soup.

Sheila Turnage

#22. Listen to me. We're born over and over, day by day. When you feel lost, let the stars sing you to sleep. You'll always wake up new.

Sheila Turnage

#23. The truth is like Spandex ... It may not look like a good fit at first, but if you ease into it and wiggle around, it winds up fitting your skin.

Sheila Turnage

#24. I'm Baptist. So far, Fast or Never is the only speeds I got with forgiving.

Sheila Turnage

#25. The Colonel says all attorneys should be named for blood sucking insects so we know up front who we are dealing with.

Sheila Turnage

#26. Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride ... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken entrails than go to her party. Plus I'm not invited ...

Sheila Turnage

#27. They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I've had close brushes myself, during math.

Sheila Turnage

#28. You don't have a plan, do you? I knew it," he said, his eyes filling with tears. "I knew not to come to a ghost farm with you during a hurricane.

Sheila Turnage

#29. Haikus are easy
But sometimes don't make sense
Refrigerator

Rolf Nelson

#30. because of the fact I now have a son and I am raising him to avoid the very person who is supposed to protect us. Who is going to protect me from the person that is supposed to be protecting me?

Zachary Turnage

#31. Dale is Baptist. He doesn't worry about much in life, but he worries about the devil afterwards.

Sheila Turnage

#32. It's never too late to make a better decision

Sheila Turnage