Cockett Marine Quotes & Sayings

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way. — Deb Caletti

He was my husband, my apartment mate, my soul mate, the father of the little plant in my confused soil, the lover who had made me adore his body without inhibition after my years of relative solitude, the person for whom I'd given up my old self. — Elizabeth Kostova

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless. — Rebecca Black

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off. — Michael Shnayerson

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing. — Chris Hadfield

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it. — Jo Brand

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set ... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire. — Jane Gardam

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce