Boating Life Quotes & Sayings

Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt. — Staceyann Chin

I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has left behind. A much more cogent way of looking at it is that the British have suddenly realized that they have their own equivalent of the perennial western. We have an immense, extremely colorful, diverse history of the empire, and I think people are just beginning to realize that there are jolly good stories there for the telling. — Valerie Fitzgerald

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up. — Jack Jason

Maybe we're both lucky to have found each other. — K.A. Tucker

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands. — Christie Brinkley

But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels."
"Work boots?" What was sexy about that? And did women have work boots?
"Yeah. You know, the boots she pulls out when she wants to get down and dirty, hiking or gardening or boating or painting the kitchen. The ones she relies on and trusts and lives her life hard and good and on her terms in. Her favorites. — Erin McCarthy

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people. — Brandon Sanderson

All the painters who appear in our museums are
failures at painting; the only people ever talked
about are failures; the world is divided into two
categories of people: failures and those unknown. — Francis Picabia

To read without joy is stupid. — John Williams

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. — Dianne Wiest

The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once — Ethel Lilian Voynich

She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself. — Don DeLillo

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. — Sara Paretsky

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew. — Daniel James Brown

Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them. — Thomm Quackenbush

I knew then that I would not turn back. I'd struggled to come this far, and I would commit myself to whatever happened next. — Louis Zamperini

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star. — Richard Branson

No one ever took charge in my life except me. I was left to fend for myself and for my mother now as well. Her unexpected illness left me with not only my loans but also her clinic bills. My father died in a boating accident. The memory of blood stained water and a frenzied shark had kept me out of the ocean for years. — Lacey Silks

Only those who serve with love are able to protect! — Pope Francis

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. — Caprice Bourret