Seagoing Quotes

#1. Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Lindsey Davis

#2. As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#3. If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Bill Nighy

#4. Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

Anne Mallory

#5. Sometimes there are fine lines between people who are considered "patriots" and those who are considered "terrorists".

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#6. Too. A woman should have something of her own. Doro

Octavia E. Butler

#7. Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Georges Rouault

#8. In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

John Eisenhower

#9. The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

John C. Maxwell

#10. Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.

Terry Pratchett

#11. This isn't exactly how I planned our second kiss, but I'm willing to go with it if you are.

J.R. Richardson

#12. Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Pema Chodron

#13. I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

John Darnielle

#14. Writing is a game of hits and misses. Throw out the hits and keep the misses.

Marty Rubin

#15. Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

Frederic Henry Hedge

#16. The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Leonard Ravenhill

#17. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Terry Teachout