Turrentine Quotes

#1. There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#3. It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in front of the other person and force them to drink it.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

Anna Lindh

#5. My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

Pharrell Williams

#6. Oh! he understood that for the humble soul of the Russian peasant, worn out by grief and toil, and still more by the everlasting injustice and everlasting sin, his own and the world's, it was the greatest need and comfort to find some one or something holy to fall down before and worship.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

Dan Jenkins

#8. Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#9. The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#10. It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Freya Stark

#11. A philosopher thinks out loud to make things better for everyone else. Fanatics make themselves louder because they think they are better than everyone else.

Corey Taylor

#12. ... the only way to do that was to make the trouble she was causing seem unimportant. It was a good strategy, and I was failing at it.

C.D. Reiss

#13. I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

Kary Mullis

#14. I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Caroline Shaw