Terrance Quotes

#1. Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong ... ever.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Terrance Hayes

#3. This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.

Terrance Hayes

#4. Always say 'Yes' to the problems and face them with positive attitude.

Phillip Terrance

#5. The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.

Terrance Dicks

#6. I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.

Terrance Hayes

#7. Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Neil Armstrong

#8. These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

Roy Keane

#9. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#10. The girl's still unconscious. I'm surprised you didn't kill her.'
'These miniature versions have parents. And parents ask questions.

Terrance Dicks

#11. Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Philip Johnson

#12. The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

Terrance Dicks

#13. Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?

Terrance Hayes

#14. No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish.

Terrance Dicks

#15. My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back. This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns

Terrance Hayes

#16. I'll eat you to live: that's poetry.

Terrance Hayes

#17. Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.

Ivan Turgenev

#18. Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

Terrance Hayes

#19. Her lips were tightly glued together, her chin protruding, her whole layout that of a girl who intended to stand no rannygazoo.

P.G. Wodehouse

#20. I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes.

Terrance Hayes

#21. Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Dolly Parton

#22. Time is a valuable treasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.

Heather O'Neill

#24. If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep.

Terrance Hayes

#25. Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks ... Soon it will all make sense.

Terrance Hayes

#26. Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry?

Terrance Lane Millet

#27. A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.

Terrance Zepke

#28. One cannot find out whether or not there's an extraterrestrial intelligence inside the mushroom unless one is willing to take the mushroom.

Terrance McKenna

#29. I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.

Dorothy Allison