Quotes About The Outer Banks

#1. Words had failed us that night, and I'd welcomed the silence. Words had escaped me the next morning as well but in a different way, when I came to realize that I was married to a fisherman for the rest of my days."--Abigail Whimble, Return to the Outer Banks House

Diann Ducharme

#2. Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller connects with with others--listen, write, share.

Patricia Hickman

#3. I just wanted to get you out of my head. But this is so much better. I like you in my head, under my skin, coated on my tongue. I like you everywhere.

Linda Kage

#4. Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. Mediocrity is your enemy,
satisfactory is your acquaintance,
excellence is your friend,
and genius is your soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Rock out like you get paid to disturb the peace

Anis Mojgani

#7. We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#8. I get the feeling you aren't going to believe me, no matter what I say.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

Daniel Pauly

#10. In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Marlo Thomas

#11. Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

Margaret Silf

#12. I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme usurped my life, spilling over into my novels until love was no longer a small voice, but now my purpose as a writer.

Patricia Hickman

#13. The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.

Patricia Hickman

#14. It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

Ian McEwan

#15. The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

John Grant

#16. Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one.

Zadie Smith

#17. I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Walter Smith

#18. I made the first move. Now it's up to him."
"Telling him you should hit the sack and get it out of your system is not making the first move.

Mary J. Williams

#19. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

Steven Wright

#20. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Tyra Banks

#21. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.

Patricia Hickman

#22. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Rhonda Byrne