Abernathys Marine Quotes & Sayings

People can read books and watch children at the same time . . . Of course, both the reading of the books and the watching of the children will be performed in a way best described as half-assed. If you want to read your book in a non-half-assed way, you have to wait until your child is in kindergarten, or you must pay someone to watch your child while you read your book. Even then, however, you must not read the book in your home because the child will find you and jump on you and make reading impossible. You must leave your home, leave your yard, leave your street. You must drive to a cafe in town to read your book.

You must run and hide from your child as if your child is serving you a subpoena.

This is not insane. It does not make you bad if you do this. — Amy Fusselman

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness. — William Shockley

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears. — William Shakespeare

Sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic. — J.K. Rowling

I have a job to do ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me. — Chris Christie

That's the beauty about beauty; it's not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day. — Michelle Phan

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.
He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found ... of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought — Arthur Rimbaud

I like the way bones and skin move, and I like seeing how all of the chambers of the heart fit together — Jenn Bennett

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition. — Joseph Addison

Sometimes, you get told enough you are what you aren't,
it gets in your head and you make it a self-fulfilling
prophesy even if you really aren't that. — Kristen Ashley

When he stood from the couch, I instantly felt his loss and my body moved to the edge of my seat, almost as if it was trying to stay connected when I lost his weight against my side. — Harper Sloan

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen — Nicholas Sparks