Nantucket's Quotes

#1. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life

Norman Sunshine

#2. You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe.

Martha Reed

#3. I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

Emily Bronte

#4. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#5. Some religions, such as Christianity and Nazism, have killed millions out of burning hatred. Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. A woman had joined the two men sitting at table three. She was a blonde, one of those fatal blondes, six foot tall or near enough, with hair the color of clover honey.

Martha Reed

#7. A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic.

James S.A. Corey

#8. If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#9. The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel - all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.

Andres Duany

#10. It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest ... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

Michael Chandler

#11. My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

Alan C. Baird

#12. You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

Jay Leno

#13. She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.

Josephine Angelini

#14. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

Stephen Richards

#15. If you're going to have an asthma attack in the surf, I strongly recommend you do so in Nantucket.

Jennifer Crusie

#16. but sometimes the things that matter to you most are also the things that hurt you the most. And in order to get over that hurt, you have to sever all the extensions that keep you tethered to that pain.

Colleen Hoover

#17. Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music ... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.

Lindsey Stirling

#18. I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

Meghan Trainor

#19. I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

Nat Faxon

#20. I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

Seanan McGuire

#21. For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#22. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

Melville Herman

#23. Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

Ilana Mercer

#24. What musicals need is a new me.

Cameron Mackintosh

#25. If one man or woman is willing to obey God, it can change the destiny of millions.

D.C. Talk

#26. 5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw - lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth.

Herman Melville

#27. Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin.

Herman Melville

#28. The body of water between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the Muskeget Channel. "I

Elin Hilderbrand

#29. Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

Carly Fiorina

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MUNISH KUMAR

#31. Sometimes the best things are the ones that aren't planned, the decisions made while living in the moment.

Jessica Sorensen

#32. I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

Jake T. Austin

#33. Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants.

Emma Straub

#34. I need Emilia to challenge me with that quiet voice of hers, to keep me interested with all those little quirks she has. I need her because she gets me.

Calia Read

#35. And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

Leila Howland