Shipping News Quotes

#1. It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

Lasse Hallstrom

#2. You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

Eddie Levert

#3. You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Time is ever flowing and changing around us. It's the fabric of the universe, and we are nothing- only single drops in the grand ocean of time.

Ethan Cross

#5. The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.

Annie Proulx

#6. Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.

Sam Wasson

#7. We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan

#8. I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

#9. Whew," he said. "You clean up good. You don't look like the same girl."
She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?

Robyn Carr

#10. The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.

Annie Proulx

#12. All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time.

Annie Proulx

#13. The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day.

Annie Proulx

#14. Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Bobby Jones

#15. Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

Seth

#16. If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.

Marina Budhos

#17. The past bubbled out of his black mouth.

Annie Proulx

#18. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

Annie Proulx

#19. Ilsa looked slightly aggrieved at the news that Robin still intended to marry someone other than Strike, but before she could say anything else Strike's mobile buzzed in his pocket.

Robert Galbraith

#20. There were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who - other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily - still told those?

Richard K. Morgan

#21. Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Alex Berenson

#22. I always look for something that I haven't necessarily done yet because I like to expand my body of work.

Ludacris

#23. You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

Charlie Day