Cargoes Masefield Quotes & Sayings

Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything. — Albert Camus

As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any president. If not brilliant or eloquent, he was courageous and principled. The invisible something he brought to the office was character. — David McCullough

Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met? — Rod McKuen

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person. — Edward Abbey

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike. — Martin Amis

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it. — Michelle Dockery

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage. — Erin McKeown

Georgia gulped as the entire doorway suddenly filled with a man she didn't recognize. She'd been expecting Jesper MacMillian.
This was definitely not Jesper MacMillian.
This man had a rich black complexion. His head was bald- whether by nature or design, she couldn't be sure. Tiny studs flashed in his ears. He wore a beautiful black suit, painstakingly tailored to fit his massive shoulders. Dark tattoos curled just above his pressed white collar, and down below the edges of his cuffs.
His face was neither kind nor unkind. He studied her with vague disinterest, his eyes quiet and guarded beneath solid brows. — Laura Oliva

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do. — Jonathan Frid

Hey, sunshine."
"Daniel.:
Good Lord, baby, Say my name again. I need you to say it in your sleep. When you touch yourself. To no one in particular. Just say it, say it, say it. — Tessa Bailey

In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity. — Peter Kreeft

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. — Robert Vaughn

James Croll, the Scottish janitor and self-taught polymath whose theories concerning Earth's orbit provided the first plausible explanation for how ice ages might have started. — Bill Bryson

Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen. — Michael P. Naughton