Starboard Side Quotes

#1. Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.

Neal Stephenson

#2. I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

George Stokes

#3. So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her.

James Lileks

#4. Fusion has been my nemesis.

Pete La Roca

#5. I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

Norm MacDonald

#6. When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.

Timothy Snyder

#7. I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

Ethan Hawke

#8. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

#9. One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#10. What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third,

Karen Armstrong

#11. Honestly, the secret to impressing people is this: individual portions, packaged in mason jars. I

Becky Albertalli

#12. Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.

Lord Dunsany

#13. The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home ... for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one by one.

Melanie Benjamin