Boat Hook Quotes

#1. You ... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

Ben Elton

#2. Sorry officer, today I'm not in the mood to break the laws.

Toba Beta

#3. The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Susan Orlean

#4. Someday, we'll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I'll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that's when I'll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can't hook
your boat to mine, because I'm liable to sink us both.

Gabrielle Zevin

#5. There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.

Kris Jenner

#6. It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Harold Brodkey

#7. I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.

Jeff VanderMeer

#8. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Wislawa Szymborska

#10. B is for boat, pushing off into the dark. C is the way that we find and we look. D is for diamonds, the bait on the hook.

Neil Gaiman

#11. I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

John Raese