Top 100 Quotes About Ferry
#1. There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
Brian Cox
#2. Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...
Mykyta Isagulov
#3. I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
David Bowie
#4. Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans.
Margaret Weis
#5. I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.
Jerry Hall
#6. Why didn't we do this then? Probably because we had class on Monday morning. But I wish we had taken that ferry when we had the chance. What was the worst thing that could have happened? We would have missed class.
Matthew Quick
#7. People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home.
Jonathan Raban
#8. People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Brian Eno
#10. What I Cannot Say
only this
I was looking
for evidence of unconditional love,
but what I found was you.
standing on the ferry deck
your dark hair a fury in the wind
Are you lost to me?
Elissa Janine Hoole
#11. Oh let the lemons lie there,
upended yellow boats, their empty inboards
so clean and white, let them always ferry
such distractions from ourselves.
Michael J. Rosen
#12. Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thing. That's when I started wearing three-piece suits. It wasn't unnatural for me.
Robin Zander
#13. The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
Hermann Hesse
#14. As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.
Johann Lamont
#15. This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
Cormac McCarthy
#16. They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
Cormac McCarthy
#17. Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.
Stella Young
#18. I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.
Susan Glaspell
#19. You need to decide if you want to be on the ferry when it sets off or if you are happier back on the sturdy pier.
Jessica Brockmole
#20. When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.
Biz Stone
#21. Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion.
Of forgiveness.
Of coming home.
Lori Wilde
#22. The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.
Augustus Toplady
#23. I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ferry and do that.' It was more practical, even for the Buddha, to cross the water normally. The normal and the supranormal were not antagonistic realms, after all.
Philip K. Dick
#24. And thus I was to be found, in the first week of June, standing on the banks of the Shenandoah again, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, blinking at a grey sky and trying to pretend that with all my heart this was where I wanted to be.
Bill Bryson
#25. You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
Robyn Hitchcock
#26. In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
Johann Lamont
#27. There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.
Shaquille O'Neal
#28. I know that you are not a man content to wait behind and just watch as the ferry chugs away. But perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go. You'll make the right decision. I think you already know what it is. E
Jessica Brockmole
#29. We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it ...
We must decline to publish them all,-simply because we see no possible good which they could accomplish.
Melanie Benjamin
#31. I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.
Ella R. Bloor
#32. For a second I thought about saying, Yes, please, let's catch the next ferry out of this freak show.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. I think Lucy Ferry, now Birley, is absolutely beautiful. She's a modern girl, but she moves beautifully. Amanda [Harlech] moves beautifully when she's not working. All those English leftover society girls.
Manolo Blahnik
#34. My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry!
David Gemmell
#35. I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
Pamela Stephenson
#36. The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.
Hunter Murphy
#37. Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future.
Amy Lane
#38. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#39. He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.
Mark Haddon
#40. It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.
John Aldridge
#42. If we buy a bike, will you travel? Will you brave the ferry?
Rosalie Marsh
#43. Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.
Robert Jordan
#44. I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip
Groucho Marx
#45. Ferrys die, but there is always a Ferry to cross the mist. Bridges and ferryfolk, they are not so different, Kit.
Kij Johnson
#46. I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
Henry A. Wise
#47. Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
Delmore Schwartz
#48. River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first
Rose Tremain
#49. The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
Harold Stephen Black
#50. Back on the ferry, I sip some vodka on the rocks and have a chat with God.
Me: (desperately) What the *&%$# am I going to do?
God:
Me: (surprised) Really? After all those Sundays of being a back up singer for Jesus, you got nothing to say?
God:
Me: (humbly) Help me out here.
Lexis De Rothschild
#51. When the three of them stepped off the ferry on the north bank, a drunken camp follower offered to pleasure Strongboar with her mouth. "Here, pleasure my friend," Ser Lyle said, shoving her toward Ser Ilyn. Laughing, the woman moved to kiss Payne on the lips, then saw his eyes and shrank away.
George R R Martin
#52. Abiding love that has endured the years - that we see only rarely. When we do, we're only too glad to ferry the couple together.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#53. The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise
#54. It wouldn't do for the owner of the Gansett Island Ferry Company to be seen falling down drunk at the island's landmark hotel. He knew that,
Marie Force
#55. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.
Jess Nevins
#56. I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.
Chellie Pingree
#57. The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
Vito Fossella
#58. And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain ...
Van Morrison
#59. It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
Quincy Jones
#60. We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.
John Landgraf
#61. My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it.
Jandy Nelson
#62. My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregnant with me and they decided to make actors out of their children. You need your parents' support if you're going to do it. Otherwise who's going to ferry you to castings?
Honeysuckle Weeks
#63. When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.
Jerry Hall
#64. My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015].
Rachel Kushner
#65. He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.
Karen Marie Moning
#66. The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
Herb Caen
#67. But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
Bryan Ferry
#68. Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan Ferry
#69. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#70. I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
Bryan Ferry
#71. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.
Jeff Ferry
#72. I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
Bryan Ferry
#73. It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
Bryan Ferry
#74. But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
Bryan Ferry
#75. When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
Bryan Ferry
#76. Indeed, as subsequent events would show, debts, rather than deficits, make countries vulnerable in a monetary union.
Jean Pisani-Ferry
#77. I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
Bryan Ferry
#78. Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry
#79. Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
Bryan Ferry
#80. I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,
Bryan Ferry
#81. I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
Bryan Ferry
#82. The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.
Luc Ferry
#83. I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
Bryan Ferry
#84. All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
Bryan Ferry
#85. ..the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of
nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.
Luc Ferry
#86. I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
Bryan Ferry
#87. Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
#88. I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the [Bob] Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
Bryan Ferry
#90. It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
Bryan Ferry
#91. It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
Bryan Ferry
#92. People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...
Annie Brown
#93. It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
Bryan Ferry
#94. True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.
Luc Ferry
#95. I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
Bryan Ferry
#96. Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.
(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)
Luc Ferry
#97. Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world ... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
Bryan Ferry
#98. The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.
Luc Ferry
#99. It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
Bryan Ferry
#100. But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry
