Spike Island Quotes

#1. Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

Patrick Stewart

#2. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

Vikram Seth

#3. The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.

Walt Whitman

#4. Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride" ...

Joan Rivers

#5. When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

Lev Grossman

#6. We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Scott Thompson

#8. I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

#9. Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

William Osler

#10. To the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another ... as you love yourself, love thy neighbor'

Manny Pacquiao