Nantucketer Quotes

#1. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

Herman Melville

#2. Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Mel Gibson

#3. Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

#4. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Xinran

#5. He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.

Susan Meissner

#6. If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Carol P. Christ

#7. Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

Bob Guccione Jr.

#8. He lay gazing at the other man's knees, wondering how God had managed to make such a mundane body part so completely beautiful on this man.

Belinda McBride

#9. What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

Ronald Reagan

#10. The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

Bill Maher

#11. Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

Rod Stewart

#12. What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

Grant Heslov

#13. If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

Denis Johnson

#14. A man is defined many ways. One of those is the woman he picks to be at his side.

Kristen Ashley