Turpin Quotes

#1. Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh

Flannery O'Connor

#3. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

Janet Turpin Myers

#4. At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?

Janet Turpin Myers

#5. Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different.

Angela Lam Turpin

#6. Everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969 at exactly 4:17E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.

Janet Turpin Myers

#7. Oh, I intend to kiss every inch of you," he drawled. "I'm going to use my mouth, my tongue, my fingers, and my rod to bring you such pleasure you'll cry with gratitude.

Sadie Carter

#8. What are you most scared of?" she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.
"I'm scared of dying alone.

Kenya Wright

#9. Thank you for annoying neighbours, for they allow us to practise our ability to love.

Janet Turpin Myers

#10. A sensible way to begin a discussion of that greater good is to focus on the current conditions within the human family and on the state of the larger living world.

Robert Jensen

#11. If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

Janet Turpin Myers

#12. She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

#13. I've always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

Janet Turpin Myers

#14. Dog diggity Cedric Diggory - you are a doggy dynamo.

J.K. Rowling

#15. I doubt I would use the word 'casualty'. There is nothing casual about killing.

Janet Turpin Myers

#16. Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

Janet Turpin Myers

#17. There are no uncriminal crimes.

Ozzy Osbourne

#18. Why doesn't anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

Janet Turpin Myers

#19. Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.

Janet Turpin Myers

#20. We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. She wondered which was worse - living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Angela Lam Turpin

#22. When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Charles Olson

#23. The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

Janet Turpin Myers

#24. How can growing up really be about falling down?

Janet Turpin Myers

#25. Let me tell you what is going to happen. You are going to be executed. You are going to be executed whatever you say or do. But I will spare your women, if they agree to answer my questions.' Silence.

C.S. Pacat

#26. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.

Janet Turpin Myers

#27. One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.

Angela Lam Turpin