Linda Greenlaw Quotes

#1. I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

Linda Greenlaw

#2. The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.

Linda Greenlaw

#3. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.

Linda Greenlaw

#4. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer.

Stephen King

#5. Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word - every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.

Aeschylus

#6. Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about ... cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about ... something else entirely," she added darkly.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

Sandra Cisneros

#8. The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

David First

#9. Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#10. Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

Henry Rollins

#11. Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.

Hermester Barrington

#12. The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Louis C.K.

#13. What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.

Linda Greenlaw

#14. A modest, godly woman will dress modestly ... The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Ellen G. White