Top 17 Quotes About Being Shipwrecked
#1. Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
David Baboulene
#2. I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
Tony Blair
#3. In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
William James
#5. If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.
Aristotle.
#6. I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.
I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
David Eddings
#7. You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.
Bill Clark
#8. My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.
Polly Horvath
#11. It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.
Celia Thaxter
#12. REENTERING SPACECRAFT HEAT UP because they're compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction).
Randall Munroe
#13. Light, why did the Pattern have to catch me up with you? Why couldn't I have something safe and simple, like being shipwrecked with no food and a dozen hungry Aielmen?
Robert Jordan
#14. I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.
George W. Bush
#15. Gabriela was in prison for Judaizing, but she recited the prayers of her tormentors. She had not even the comfort of the religion for which she was punished.
David Liss
#16. He must have been thinking about this ahead of time. He must have consciously decided he wanted her, and imagined how it would be. The knowledge made her feel mysterious and desirable and grown-up.
Anne Tyler
#17. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.
John Banville
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