Marlinspike Quotes

#1. It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

George MacDonald

#2. Marlinspike goes down to the kitchen, to grow stout and live out his beastly nature. There is a summer ahead, though he cannot imagine its pleasures; sometimes when he's walking in the garden he sees him, a half-grown cat, lolling watchful in an apple tree, or snoring on a wall in the sun.

Hilary Mantel

#3. True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Dwight L. Moody

#4. We take our endorsements seriously.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#5. What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

#6. There's nothing here for ye! Nothing save danger." "Is there really nothing here for me?" I had asked. Too honorable to speak, he had answered nonetheless, and I had made my choice.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.

Penn Badgley

#8. For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

Jack Whitehall

#9. Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.

Ransom Riggs