Beachcombers Quotes

#1. I would say that an easterner's first grunion hunt is also his first step in becoming what all of us sooner or later become here: beachcombers of some sort.

Max Miller

#2. I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

David Levithan

#3. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

#4. JOH! Thank God I found you."
"I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Maureen A. Miller

#5. Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.

Harold S. Kushner

#6. Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

Walter Darby Bannard

#7. I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior ... But maybe, it's that they're dog, and that's what dogs do.

Amy Hempel

#8. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

John Murray

#9. Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

Charlie Chaplin

#10. The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.

Ray Bradbury

#11. A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Henry David Thoreau