Quotes About The Boatman

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. What will happen will happen, what won't happen won't happen.

Jim Harbaugh

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

Michael Boatman

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

Benjamin Franklin

#9. Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. With such a precedent, you could possibly make better use of it," said Mrs. Perley.
"Huh," said Sheriff Gibbs

Gary D. Schmidt

#10. 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

#11. '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

#12. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Josh McDowell

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

Michael Boatman

#14. To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

Alfred North Whitehead

#16. entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

Louis De Bernieres

#17. 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

#18. French Vanilla," Kingsley said. "What's that?" "Vanilla with a strong libido and a taste for anal." "I can see that.

Tiffany Reisz

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

Daniel Tammet

#22. 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

#23. 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