Nicholas Monsarrat Quotes

#1. I love who you are. Because you accept me for who I am. You make me laugh, sometimes even at myself. And you make me happy.

Tara Kelly

#2. The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#3. Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

Cynthia Heimel

#4. Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#5. I uncurled my legs and pushed until I had both arms fully extended and both legs straight up in the air. My dress fell down over my head, so if any of our neighbors were up and about, they saw more than just me going all Russian gymnast on our fence.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#7. Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place

N. T. Wright

#8. My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

James McAvoy

#9. Blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners - the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#10. repressive cough

Nicholas Monsarrat