Turnpike Troubadours Song Quotes

#1. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things ...

Muriel Barbery

#2. I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

Max Brooks

#3. I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won't be hanging over my head all weekend long. The good
thing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn't usually interfere with this quirk of mine.

Kim Harrington

#4. If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Mason Cooley

#5. It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone.

T. Ellery Hodges

#6. As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

Simon Mainwaring

#7. Sometimes there's no cure for the crazy." Dale sighed, stroking my hair. "I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that's the cure.

Emme Rollins

#8. Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Edmund Burke

#9. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#10. And although the evil had been taken out, its infection was beyond deadly and the harm was done.

J.R. Ward

#11. I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.

Solange Knowles

#12. Marines are very good at fighting ... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

Peter Pace

#13. It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Gwendoline Riley