Tumultuousness Quotes

#1. An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Deb Caletti

#3. The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

Maya Rodale

#5. There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

Sheryl Crow

#6. Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good
Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Joanna Baillie

#7. Yes, I know they are words, there was a time I didn't, as I still don't know if they are mine.

Samuel Beckett

#8. I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#9. I began to pick through the red rivers
of confusion;

I began to take apart
the deep stitches
of nightmares.

Mary Oliver