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)

    “It has never been in my power to sustain ... I can pass swiftly from one effect to another, but I cannot fix one, and dwell on it, with that superb concentration which seems to me the special attribute of the tragic actress.”
    —Ellen Terry (1847–1928)

    “When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
    I stood upon the hatches in the storm.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)