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“Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.”
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“People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.”
Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
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“I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.”
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“Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.”
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“At Disneyland, you never go backstage - even when youre in the bathroom.”
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“I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.”
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“Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.”
Source : Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.107
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“The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.”
Source : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011. 
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“So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.”
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“All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...”
