Beachcomber Quotes & Sayings

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication — Nancy Werlin

Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap. — M.J. DeMarco

It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here. — John Wayne

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. — Jean Genet

The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination. — Tim Winton

Having reached this conclusion, he had proceeded to woo Perry, flatter him - pretend, for example, that he believed all the buried-treasure stuff and shared his beachcomber yearnings and seaport longings, none of which appealed to Dick, who wanted "a regular life," with a business of his own, a house, a horse to ride, a new car, and "plenty of blond chicken. — Truman Capote

Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else. — Jayce O'Neal

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. — Karl Marx

What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family. — Rafael Cruz

But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it. — Jane Austen

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. — Freeman Dyson

I would say that an easterner's first grunion hunt is also his first step in becoming what all of us sooner or later become here: beachcombers of some sort. — Max Miller

Essex was just a shadow in the room, the shadow of a thing I wanted, which was itself a shadow of wanting. But it was unspeakably sweet to feel even that, and terrifying to know how quickly it would pass. A moment inscribed on water, a memory that would fade to grey. I was nothing but a ghost hunter, chasing the wraith of the man I used to be. A beachcomber of my own detritus. — Alexis Hall