Shipwrecking Key Quotes

#1. For those who protest that Mr. Obama will soon be out of office and irrelevant, read on and learn how his legacy of conscious control over every aspect of our lives will continue to function for generations to come. On

Alexandra York

#2. To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering.

Charles Dickens

#3. Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

Karl Rove

#4. The stories told by ancient peoples from which we are descended have managed to put into pleasant and entertaining words what we've been repeating ever since in living rooms, courts, churches, and therapy sessions. The "life tips" that we seek have been there for us all along.

Steven Gregory

#5. She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

Harry Chapin

#6. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#7. Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [ ... ] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#8. Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

Honore De Balzac

#9. The life-energy in a body contains eternity.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#10. A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

Brenda Lee

#11. Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world.

Brian Spellman

#12. It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Maya Angelou

#13. It is normal to have enemies,
common to have acquaintances,
and unusual to have friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo