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.
-
This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.
-
Or me lying in the... Let me tell ya... Lying in bed the next day, she brought me cafe au lait, she gives me a cigarette. My balls feel like concrete. Eh?
-
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
-
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
-
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
-
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
