Dulong's Quotes

#1. Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.

Gay Talese

#2. Sabrina ran for seven years with a different director every week.

Melissa Joan Hart

#3. With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving, and transmuting shape similarly to the way that water morphs into steam and ice and snow.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#4. I just ... tell me something true about you."
"I own a pair of bell-bottoms," he confessed. "And an orange disco shirt."
"I don't believe you. You must wear it, then, next time I see you."
"I couldn't," the Gray Man said, amused. "I'd have to change my name to Mr. Orange.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

John F. Kennedy

#6. In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

Beyonce Knowles

#7. You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. All education is self-education," said Noxon. "And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

Orson Scott Card

#9. I grew up with all kinds of people.

Vin Diesel

#10. Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

Michael Anthony

#11. At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Tabitha Suzuma

#12. Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#13. I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

Valentina Tereshkova

#14. I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

Chris Lowe

#15. What I mean is, this is not just a woman's story. It's what happens to a lot of us, if we are lucky enough to hear that detail and pay attention

Elizabeth Strout

#16. In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com job to the fabled waters of the Hudson River, where she became a fireboat engineer. This is an unusual and fascinating book.

Jon Meacham