Turbulent Quotes

Loose cannon

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

I live in a crazy time.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

I do not have a very peaceful life.

American have become unruly steeds.

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

My life is crazy sometimes.

Walter is a force of nature, without beginnings and endings.

[Describing Theodore Roosevelt:] Half St. Paul, half St. Vitus.

… a very lively but ill-mannered democracy

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Kids are anarchy writ large.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

She carries chaos like an overcoat.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.