Ferrywake Quotes & Sayings

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan. — Jimmy Buffett

It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest's aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things it is reluctant to unclasp./How the Osage orange trunks and bare limbs/glow in the scattered light like veins of fire. — Bryan Penberthy

Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness — Haruki Murakami

We don't usually see that there's a third possible logical term equal to yes and no which is capable of expanding our understanding in an unrecognized direction. We don't even have a term for it, so I'll have to use the Japanese mu. — Robert M. Pirsig

It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it. — John Scalzi

It was made to fail, born to be co-opted and subsumed into the junky ferrywake of media's coaching. — David Foster Wallace

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling. — Sydney J. Harris

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. — Sa'di S. Shaikh Muslihu-D-Din