Annie Proulx Shipping News Quotes

#1. I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Jennifer Armentrout

#2. First of all, these lenders are not babies. These are total killers. These are not the nice, sweet little people you think. You're living in a world of make-believe.

Donald Trump

#3. When a Dragon, an Elf, and a Human walk into a bar, the Human is always going to be the punch line.

Bryan Fields

#4. Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth
Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of
those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me.

Steven Tyler

#5. I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

Mila Kunis

#6. The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.

Annie Proulx

#7. I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape.

J.D. Salinger

#8. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.

Annie Proulx

#9. All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time.

Annie Proulx

#10. I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Rita Mae Brown

#11. There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Michelle Malkin

#12. A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill

#13. The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day.

Annie Proulx

#14. No one wants to go out mid-sentence.

Johnny Depp

#15. As if this was normal.
As if nothing had happened during the night.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#16. The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

William Graham Sumner

#17. The past bubbled out of his black mouth.

Annie Proulx

#18. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

Annie Proulx

#19. Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life
in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.

Gillian Flynn

#20. My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

Henry Louis Gates