Fortune's Rocks Quotes

#1. In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

Anita Shreve

#2. Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's

Phoebe Conn

#3. When Life gives you a 100 reasons to Cry , show life that you have 1000 reasons to Smile

Anisha D'souza

#4. Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

Chris Murray

#5. When i look into your eyes i know what you are thinking what you are feeling and that your love for me has no limit.

Matt Trevitz

#6. To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

Edward Abbey

#7. Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

Leigh Hunt

#8. What makes journalist so fascinating, and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: 'What's he like?

John F. Kennedy

#9. Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai.
"What?"
"About your having diarrhea."
"For you I'd get dysentery."
"Now that's friendship.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances.

William Ritter

#11. He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

Jim Davis

#12. There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#13. The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

Pietro Metastasio

#14. good design...is intelligence made visible";

Zena O'Connor

#15. Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

Zadie Smith

#16. What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

Francis Crick

#17. As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

#18. This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Robert B. Parker

#19. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Seneca.

#20. It's better to forgive one person than hate everyone that will remind you of that person.

Anthony Labson

#21. Repeat after me: "I am a goddess. I am a goddess. I am a goddess." Make this your mantra. From constant repetition you will start believing it, and if you yourself are convinced of your goddesshood, other people will be convinced.

Jessica Zafra