Lighthouse Keeper Quotes

#1. For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Pair of Stephens Island wrens, which were found only on a small, isolated island in New Zealand's Cook Strait. All were killed by a lighthouse keeper's cat.

Bill Bryson

#3. Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.

Howard Norman

#4. As I left the landing, I had the peculiar thought that I was not the first to pocket the photo, that someone would always come behind to replace it, to circle the lighthouse keeper again.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.

Antonia Michaelis

#7. When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen

#8. Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell.

Elinor Dewire

#9. The real man, spiritual man, is birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died - As he was in the beginning, he is now, and ever shall be!

Florence Scovel Shinn

#10. When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Bill Gates

#11. They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles - my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound the clockwork, polished the lenses, and swept all those rocky steps. My

Elan Mastai

#12. Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#13. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Jon Meacham