Travis Mcgee Quotes

#1. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

#2. In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.
Travis McGee, 1985

John D. MacDonald

#3. With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

Estelle

#4. Fire," she whispered. "Wind. I see dark things and a dark war. I see my death coming for me, out of the spirit world. And I see you at the middle of it all. You're the beginning, the end of it. You're the one who can make the path go different ways."
"That's your vision? Iowa has less corn.

Jim Butcher

#5. It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett

#6. It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Peter Elbow

#7. In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

Dogen

#8. Why would anyone on the crew put on a red shirt? Honestly, it's like they're standing in front of their closet, and they're thinking, 'Yellow? Blue? Nah, today's a good day to die.

Molly Harper

#9. In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.
Meyer's Law

John D. MacDonald

#10. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

#11. I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

Boots Riley

#12. We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the August light of abiding memories.

Joseph Conrad

#13. I have a secret. My inner smile is shining.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#14. I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

David Hockney

#15. There are no hidden depths to me.

Charles Saatchi

#16. I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

Dean Koontz