Tugboat Quotes

#1. I felt infuriatingly left out
a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.

Truman Capote

#2. The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

Caroline Pratt

#3. A marine snail gliding through the familiar city. Only in a dream could I move so gently along with the small human heartbeat in rhythm with the tug tug heartbeat of the tugboat, and Paris unfolding, uncurling, in beautiful undulations.

Anais Nin

#4. It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.

Donna Tartt

#5. My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.'

Dean Wareham

#6. Once the tugboat takes you out to the ocean liner, you got to get all the way on board. Can't straddle both decks.

Katherine Patterson

#7. Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

#8. The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Edward St. Aubyn

#9. I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

Lykke Li

#10. I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.

Steve Martin

#11. Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

Bill Gates

#12. Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

Laura Berman

#13. I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

Claire Cook

#14. I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#15. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

Susan Sontag

#16. It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly.

James Dashner

#17. I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

Sarah Parcak