Blynkens Boat Quotes & Sayings

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God. — Roland Smith

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

If there was ever such a thing as redemption, they would have to open a magnum of the stuff for Moist. No, a brewery. — Terry Pratchett

We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom? — Jeanette Winterson

That's because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you." "I'm not entirely sure about that," Emma said. "Only kidding!" said Horace. "It's to buy clothes, of course. — Ransom Riggs

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses ... — Edward Abbey

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions. — Zora Neale Hurston

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough. — Jimmy Connors

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire. — Michel De Montaigne

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision. — Patrick Cleburne

Your thoughts and intentions have a mirroring power, make sure they are always kind and loving. — Linda Alfiori

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire. — Tadeusz Konwicki

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly. — Julianna Baggott

A single piece of information designed to flow through the entire ecosystem of news will create more value than a piece of information sealed up in a glass box. — Steven Johnson