Shaftoe Quotes

#1. Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.

Neal Stephenson

#2. 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

#3. Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds.

Neal Stephenson

#4. You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

Jeb Bush

#5. Semper Fidelis
Dawn star flares on disk of night
I fall, sun rises

Neal Stephenson

#6. Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.

John Wyndham

#7. I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

Paul Walker

#8. Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

Genesis P-Orridge

#9. Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand ...

William Shakespeare

#10. When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Rita Ora

#11. Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

Coleman Dowell

#12. In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Joseph J. Ellis