Maritime Stories Quotes

#1. I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

Dalai Lama

#2. The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?

Kathleen Valentine

#3. Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.

Tasha Smith

#4. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
where they were wont to do:
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

Marlene Dietrich

#6. Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They seemed to take something from several different sources, leaving them unreadable.

Jim Butcher

#7. God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

George Sand

#8. I begin and end with her. It's as simple and as profound as that. Our worlds have entwined and wrapped around each other's completely. They've shaped into something new and fixed and whole. There is no longer her story or mine, but now and always, only ours.

Laurelin Paige

#9. There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Sharon Horgan

#10. Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

Barbara Olson

#11. It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

Suzanne Collins

#12. And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

Renata Bowers

#13. When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Pablo Picasso

#14. The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell

#15. Writing is the easiest thing in the world ... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

Mark Twain

#16. Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

Peter Diamandis

#17. Witchcraft and wizardry had so effectively been denied that his own powers began to weaken, for there were few who contributed to his strength by invoking his name.

Orson Scott Card