Francis Chichester Quotes

#1. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.

Slavoj Zizek

#2. Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

William Shakespeare

#3. 10:10 10 Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.

Anonymous

#4. I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

Carol Alt

#5. If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.

Francis Chichester

#6. Another word for talent is obsession.

Marion Dane Bauer

#7. To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Francis Chichester

#8. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

#9. We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Lewis Thomas

#10. I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will go "down the drain" into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. - Nobel physicist Richard Feynman

Robert Lanza

#11. Thank you, Shay." "For what?" "For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love." Shahara wanted to weep at his words that touched her deep inside her heart. "You were never nothing, Syn. And you will always be everything to me.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. I ate in silence, listening to the rustle of his clothes being donned, trying to think of ice baths, of infected wounds, of toe fungus - anything but his naked body, so close ... and the bed I was sitting on.

Sarah J. Maas