Washed Ashore Quotes

#1. A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida.
Then it got weird.

Tim Dorsey

#2. Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Amy Jarecki

#3. She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.

Gillian Flynn

#4. On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.

J.G. Ballard

#5. Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the sea, and we made of them new songs. The sun came again, casting shadows that we peeled off the street to make of them new clothes.

Susan Abulhawa

#6. No one cares if, after a storm, they're washed ashore naked. Only that they are alive.

Leylah Attar

#7. Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.

John Maerz

#8. An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

William Thomas Stead

#9. When Carlo turned sixteen, he was obliged by Italian law to serve two years of reserve military training. The bishop told Carlo that if he entered seminary he would be exempt from this duty. Carlo told the priest that he planned to enter seminary but that first he needed to understand evil.

Dan Brown

#10. I want to be your end, but you gotta let it begin.

Colleen Hoover

#11. Everyone I love I pay.

Bob Saget

#12. I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

Michael Jackson

#13. There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil

Robert Galbraith

#14. I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset.

Heber J. Grant

#15. Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

Anonymous

#16. I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Morrissey

#17. Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that people before us had to go through for us to be able to live comfortably today.

Tamara James

#18. I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Claude Chabrol

#19. Anything past the horizon is invisible, it can only be imagined. You want to see the future but you only see the sky.

Richard Siken

#20. Unique is not the same as alone.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Richard Russo

#22. Tsukuru couldn't fathom what this substance was. He couldn't accept or reject it. It merely settled on his body as a shadowy swarm, laying an ample amount of shadowy eggs. Then darkness would withdraw and twilight would return, bringing with it the birds, who once again slashed away at his body.

Haruki Murakami