Terry Tempest Williams

Famous quotes containing the words terry tempest, terry, tempest and/or williams:

    “... memory is the only way home.”
    —Terry Tempest Williams, U.S. author. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 10, by Mickey Pearlman (1993)

    “What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contempory who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!”
    —Ellen Terry (1848–1928)

    “Theologians should not be ashamed to admit that they cannot enter a contest with such antagonists [the sceptics], and that they do not want to expose the Gospel truths to such an attack. The ship of Jesus Christ is not made for sailing on this stormy sea, but for taking shelter from this tempest in the haven of faith.”
    —Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)

    “We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)