Coxswain Rowing Quotes & Sayings

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. — Ben Nicholson

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. — Tony Hsieh

Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness. — Daniel James Brown

Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic — Mary Shelley

Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly looked again. This boat appeared to be manned by four skeletons. Their cheek bones stood out like knots, their ribs were clearly defined as if they were painted on. Every leg and arm muscle showed as taut as steel cabling. Four pairs of deep-set eyes peered at us, conveying 'the look.' The four men who were rowing that shell were a special breed of oarsmen known as 'lightweights' ... — Brad Alan Lewis

Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life. — Sarah Winman

No practice exists in isolation. — Idries Shah

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously. — Bob Odenkirk

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own. — Paul Hawken

To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end ... THIS is achievement — Neil Patel

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy. — Alice Walker

Wine is like the incarnation
it is both divine and human — Paul Tillich

In crew, contempt is important. In Boston, Boston University and Northeastern crew are treated with contempt by the college up the river. Intramural crew is treated with contempt. Nonathletic coxswains (Chinese engineering majors, poets) are treated with contempt. A true coxswain is a diminutive jock, raging against the pint size that made him the butt of so many jokes at Prep school. He runs twenty stadiums a day, his girlfriend is six feet one, and he can scream orders even when he has the flu (which he catches at least three times a winter). — Lisa Birnbach

It is in the way you held my hands
that I knew could never let you go. — Timothy Joshua

Our hearts don't choose their match based on the baggage they may or may not have. — Quinn Loftis

The Head of the Charles in Cambridge, Mass., is the great American crew event, athletically and socially. It occurs the second weekend in October; secondary schools and colleges send shells in all categories in the three-mile race up the Charles River. Drunken Preps line the banks and bridges at Harvard, ready to howl with glee as a coxswain rams his shell into a stanchion of the Eliot Street Bridge (where the river narrows and curves with treacherous suddenness). — Lisa Birnbach

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be. — Boy George

Batman doesn't want a baby in order to feel he's 'done everything'. He's just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it. — Caitlin Moran

Hold on to your own ideal ... Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all. — Swami Vivekananda