Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
-
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
-
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
-
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
-
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
-
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
-
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
-
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
-
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
-
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
-
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
-
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
-
Anybody can leap off a building.
-
I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
-
I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.
-
There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
-
I think heavy metal is therapeutic - it's music that blows the tension away. I think that's why people who have had really bad childhoods are attracted to heavy metal. It allows people to release aggression and tension in a nonviolent way. Also, heavy metal seems to attract all sorts of scruffy, lost animals, strays no one wants.
-
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
-
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
-
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
-
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
-
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
