Turn Of Screw Quotes

#1. I'm a serial bigamist.

Russ Meyer

#2. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.

Cora Carmack

#3. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.

Henry James

#4. I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

Susan Hill

#5. Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.

Alfred Tennyson

#6. I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.

Henry James

#7. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Ilona Andrews

#8. If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

Garrison Keillor

#9. Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

Susan Hill

#10. Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

#12. I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

Bill Dedman

#13. You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.

Theophilus Ajadi

#14. A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

Jake Roberts

#15. I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

Michael W. Smith

#16. Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

John C. Maxwell

#17. All you want is to have hot sex,
But after work every night,
You're so tired, the only thing
You can turn on is T.V shite.
There's never energy for sex.
So, oh, whatever will you do?
Well, there is no need to worry,
Because the system will screw you.

Harry Whitewolf

#18. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children - ?" "We

Henry James

#19. Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge