Ballasts Quotes

#1. Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

Anthony Doerr

#2. My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

Walt Whitman

#3. The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

Terri Windling

#4. There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever.

Debasish Mridha

#5. After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

Fred Allen

#6. After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

#7. My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.

Diane Chamberlain

#8. Nothing is permanent," Magnus said. "I know this from experience. But you can get new things. You can meet new people. You can go on.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

#10. When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron

#11. Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Joan Jett

#12. Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.

Gerard Pique

#13. Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

David Mitchell

#14. She loved him. It was a pale description of how she felt, but she could find no other words. To watch him, to hear him, to simply be in the same space with him made her heart sing.

Leona Blair

#15. The discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary,

Gloria Steinem

#16. I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

Julie Newmar

#17. There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

Robert Anton Wilson