Tempest Act 3 Quotes

#1. Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

Terry Tempest Williams

#2. There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Pete Sampras

#4. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Billy Joel

#5. When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Rebecca Hall

#7. Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. Do I mind? No! Because that's the way he is. He's a human being! Nose hair and all!

Jojo Moyes

#10. If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.

Terry Tempest Williams

#11. Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.

Kevin Focke

#13. When a woman allows a man to enter her, it is not just a physical act, but a spiritual one, ... We risk everything trying to touch the ineffable by touching each other.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Terry Tempest Williams

#15. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1

Erin Morgenstern

#16. Now you're asking me to explain microwaves to a monkey.

James S.A. Corey

#17. Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters.

Edward Hirsch

#18. Szeth could feel the Light's warmth, its fury, like a tempest that had been injected directly into his veins. The power of it was invigorating but dangerous. It pushed him to act. To move. To strike.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

Sarah Moon