Turrets Quotes:

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

topic: Book, Cities, Transition, Spires, Clouded

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

topic: Men, Forever, Heaven, Spires, Turrets

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

- Omar Khayyam

topic: Stars, Night, Light, Turrets

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

- Woody Harrelson

source: "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

topic: Fathers Day, Daughter, Wall, Moats, Turrets

The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Lakes, Sky, Black, Starry Sky, Turrets

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

topic: New Orleans, Ideas, Good Ideas, Long Lines, Roman Catholic

Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

topic: Sweet, Morning, Wall, Splendour, Turrets

Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

- George Sterling

topic: Atheism, World, Littles, Tow, Turrets

The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

- Mervyn Peake

source: Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

topic: Wall, Dark, Wind, Turrets

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

- Randall Jarrell

topic: Mother, Dream, Sleep, Turrets

My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

- Katherine Page

topic: Summer, Ocean, Night, Turrets

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

topic: Dream, Past, Clouds, Toffee, Turrets

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

- Sebastian Junger

topic: War, Men, Air, Gunners, Terminal

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.

- Shirley Jackson

topic: Gossip, House, Towers, Turrets