Quarterdeck Quotes

#1. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

William Monahan

#2. Loneliness is an empty space, a hole that cannot be filled. Loneliness is the weather side of the quarterdeck and a vacant captain's cabin. It's the sea when I can't look at it through your eyes. It's the wind when I can't hear it with your ears. It's salt when I can't taste it on your lips.

Ellen Argo

#3. Since he was required by custom to remain stationed at the quarterdeck, Pollard was all but powerless before this clumsy display.

Anonymous

#4. Walking with a crutch is still walking on one's own.

Marty Rubin

#5. C++ is an insult to the human brain

Niklaus Wirth

#6. By holding hands a couple can always say a lot of things they couldn't have otherwise said in a public place. Among a million people, they can touch and tickle each other at their most intimate places: their hearts.

Uday Mukerji

#7. It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Aesop

#8. I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Gabriel Iglesias

#9. All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"
an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

Gretel Ehrlich

#10. When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Lenny Kravitz

#11. It certainly wasn't the chronicle of a king. The yere of our Lord 1537 was a prince born to king Harry th'eight. It was, instead, the story of a poor boy who learns to read and comes to know as much of politics as a prince. This

Jill Lepore

#12. There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.

Frantz Fanon

#13. We call Chess the game of Kings, because through chess, we learn how to rule kings

Rick Yancey

#14. All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Sages of the past would say we are - all of us - just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

Susan Meissner

#16. Respect the world and it takes care of you; disrespect her and she kicks your ass.

Dennis Vickers

#17. I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Jimmy Page

#18. The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Paul Park