Quotes About Boatman

#1. Shaftoe pulls off his dog tags and wraps the will around them, then wraps the dog tags' chain around the whole thing. He passes it down to the stern of the boat, where the boatman pockets it and cheerfully agrees to do the right thing with it when he gets back to Calamba.

Neal Stephenson

#2. I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.

Nick Offerman

#3. 'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.

Alan Ruck

#4. Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.

Sone No Yoshitada

#5. He is not going to come back now, for me, for you or for anyone. This time he has found the boatman, and the boatman has taken him over.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. Boatman and I concluded to sleep, if we could; and so crowded

Benjamin Franklin

#7. The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#8. You should have heard the boatman who brought me up here from the Glades. Fire in the northern sky, lights in the marshes, a black dog heard barking through the night. Doesn't occur to anyone to wonder how exactly you can tell it's a black dog just from the fucking bark it makes.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.
There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

Kabir

#10. For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

Michael Boatman

#11. When Holding, clinging to the poop with five others,

Joan Druett

#12. Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

Rani Mukerji

#13. I love a story that balances pace with detail.

Michael Boatman

#14. We must remember that the only true wealth we have is the freedom of another human, not their entrapment.

Lujan Matus

#15. I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

Michael Boatman

#16. Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

John Gay

#17. Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.

Anna Quindlen

#18. I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

Michael Boatman

#19. The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.

Michael Boatman

#20. To be great, you must be misunderstood

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

Michael Boatman