Abord Quotes

#1. This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.

John Cheever

#2. Her mother began to pick apart the toilet paper covering her gift. 'I suppose, she said brightly, 'we should be grateful this hasn't been used before as well!

Wendy Holden

#3. I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

David Eddings

#4. The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Allan Sekula

#5. Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

Mary Kay Ash

#6. The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Gail Carriger

#7. And once I'd unloaded all my teenage pain on him, he knew the way to win my trust. He never told me what to do. Instead, he told me stories.

Amanda Palmer

#8. Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn't exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

Rick Riordan

#9. Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life. - 131

Robin Romm

#10. Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

Christophe Agou

#11. In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke

#12. The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

George Carlin

#13. He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Benjamin Disraeli