Recollected In Tranquility Quotes

#1. An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Tim Cahill

#2. Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Jack Levine

#3. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

#4. Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

Harold Brodkey

#5. Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

#6. Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.. We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

Arthur Ransome

#7. Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

Jim Butcher

#8. You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

John Podhoretz

#9. Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Samuel Beckett

#10. Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

Michael Chabon

#11. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

#12. Listen to your inner voice. Look deeply into soul, there is beauty surrounding you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.

Glen Cook

#14. The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.

Edward Grey

#15. Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. ... Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Paul Nicklen

#16. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

Pete Wentz

#19. We have to reduce our expectations of England and we have the players to do it

Steve McClaren