Quotes About Nantucket

#1. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#2. Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants.

Emma Straub

#3. The body of water between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the Muskeget Channel. "I

Elin Hilderbrand

#4. Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin.

Herman Melville

#5. 5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw - lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth.

Herman Melville

#6. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

Melville Herman

#7. For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#8. I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

Nat Faxon

#9. If you're going to have an asthma attack in the surf, I strongly recommend you do so in Nantucket.

Jennifer Crusie

#10. She would have to leave the country, or at least Nantucket, because there was no way she could live down the fact that she had tried to strangle the hottest boy on the island.

Josephine Angelini

#11. You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

Jay Leno

#12. My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

Alan C. Baird

#13. The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel - all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.

Andres Duany

#14. If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#15. About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending." - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life

Norman Sunshine

#16. I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

Meghan Trainor

#17. And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

Leila Howland

#18. You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.

Sarah Parcak

#19. When you're seventy-five, you are still going to be you.

Linda Gray

#20. We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices.

Sarah Dalton

#21. When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Henri Nouwen

#22. It is not an easy thing," she said, "to love more than one is loved.

Joan Wolf

#23. I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do ... " he swung a finger back and forth between us" ... this.

Tammara Webber

#24. There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.

Jeff VanderMeer

#25. Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

Ricky Maye

#26. Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

Ilana Mercer

#27. We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Madeleine L'Engle

#28. There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. I want the single player experience.

Wayne Brady

#30. A woman had joined the two men sitting at table three. She was a blonde, one of those fatal blondes, six foot tall or near enough, with hair the color of clover honey.

Martha Reed

#31. You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe.

Martha Reed