Ahoy Mate Quotes & Sayings

My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it. — Alan C. Greenberg

I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face. — Carmelo Anthony

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record)
I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m. — Noureddine Morceli

My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I'm like the ultimate fan. — John Varvatos

Why do I love this place so much? Is it because here human nature hasn't time to disguise itself? Nobody here could talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up — Graham Greene

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night. — Bertrand Russell

I look over at Ed. He's staring out the window giving Leo the thumbs-down. I wait till he's looking at me, then I give him two fingers up. He gives me two fingers back. I give him the middle finger. He gives it back to me. I don't know any more signs, so I make up one. Three fingers. Take that, mister. He sticks up four. I call your four and raise you five. He skips straight to ten and does something with his thumb that disturbs me. I bounce my hands on my lap. Ed bounces his lap right back. — Cath Crowley

Dedicated selfless people shape the future — Kishore Bansal

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan — Anne Carson

You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen. — Richard Feynman

I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring or the email to pop up in our inbox. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen-if they happen at all-when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready. — Dani Shapiro

I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention. — Kathleen Sebelius