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  • I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.

    Music   Player   Style  
  • No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

    Running   Flower   Mean  
    Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909). “The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909”
  • I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

    Hate   Science   Hair  
  • What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

    Funny   Weed   Baseball  
  • Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.

    Feet   Anxiety   Jitters  
  • The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

    Men   Thinking   Males  
    "Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 2, 2015.
  • You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

    World   Urban   Radical  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

  • I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

  • Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

    Nature   Wall   Spring  
    Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130
  • On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

    Garden   Ivory   Snow  
  • When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

    Running   Spring   Sea  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3446, Delphi Classics
  • Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

    Heart   Soul   Shadow  
    Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

  • Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

    Lonely   Reading   Home  
    "Camilla Lackberg's top 10 Swedish crime novels" by Camilla Lackberg, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.
  • Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.

    Hurt   Pain   Eye  
    John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.83, Random House
  • All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

    President   Rail   Turf  
    "Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.
  • Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  • Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

    Heart   Thinking   Blue  
    William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250
  • I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.

    Source: inters.org
  • I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

    Able   Film   Seems  
    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy!

  • All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

    Pride   Guy   Ego  
  • There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.

    Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub
  • To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

    William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin
  • I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

    Player   Thinking   Games  
  • We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.

    Source: www.publicanthropology.org
  • Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

    Play   Degrees   Ease  
    'To the Same Flower [Daisy]' (With little here to do, 1807)
  • Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

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