Argosy Quotes

#1. Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Nonchalance, she could have told Argosy, does not pay.

Julie Anne Long

#3. They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,
and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

Woodrow Wilson

#4. I like the Iliad and the Argosy

Christopher Morley

#5. A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

#6. The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Wilbur Smith

#7. Barrabas came to us by the sea.

Isabel Allende

#8. We have to stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West.

Edward Cline

#9. I believe that fate pushes in the direction we're supposed to go, but we have to chose how to go there. We get to choose the path that leads us to our fate.

Krista Lakes

#10. She watched his other wife and their two children climb from the limousine & walk into the church.

Bernadette Marie

#11. Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Roger Bannister

#12. They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

Peter Mandelson

#13. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Jenna Blum

#14. Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

Charles Dickens

#15. Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Hal Borland

#16. When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.

Catherine O'Hara

#17. Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

Ned Beauman