Torpedo Boats Quotes

#1. If
you sing a sad song loud enough, the boys
on those torpedo boats
can hear you under the sea.

Laura Kasischke

#2. I'm always going to have a soft spot for this city in my life. This is where I sort of grew up. So many romantic mistakes.

Jessica Pan

#3. I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Alan Arkin

#4. When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain ... Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.

Kay Warren

#5. Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

David Chalmers

#6. The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.

Mary Allsebrook

#7. There are some works so luminous ... so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.

Herve Le Tellier

#8. It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

Jim Hightower

#9. I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

Craig Ferguson

#10. You wouldn't. You're an aberration," he said. "How do I know you won't kill us all anyway?" I said. "You're the one I need to feed to the fire," he said. "Drop the gun and you can save this girl." "Not terribly convincing," I said, stalling for time, hoping for that time to bring something.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

#12. We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Ezra Taft Benson

#13. Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

Ariel Levy