Mooring Lines Quotes

#1. Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

Aime Cesaire

#3. A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

Frederick Philip Grove

#4. Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Bharati Mukherjee

#5. Divine essence?' I said. 'Hey, I'm Fat Boy, I'll possess a guy and make him eat ten pounds of chocolate in one sitting! Yeah, that's divine, that's fucking deep, that's like ... ' I couldn't think what that was like. It was like something, though.

Daryl Gregory

#6. It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake.

Tom Douglas

#7. I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Anne Bronte

#8. Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.

Pierre Boulez

#10. O aching time! O moments big as years!

John Keats