Foremast Close Quotes & Sayings

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. — George Orwell

I think you're my hero,' she said. Only half-kidding.
He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. 'Most people,' he said, 'think I am a very bad man.'
She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn't seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. 'Well,' she said at last, 'maybe you're a very good dragon. — Thea Harrison

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew. — John Foster

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce

She had given up something for which she had long yearned for the mere possibility of a love, and a life, with him. With him.
Yet, she had no idea how he felt about her. How powerfully love and admiration and pure, simple awe flowed through him for her. — Laura Kaye

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation ... No government and no plan can succeed without it. — Lionel Murphy

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper. — Terence Stamp

There's always only one reality. — Haruki Murakami

Is Jase already gonna marry you?"
I start coughing again. "Uh, No. No, George. I'm only seventeen." As if that's the only reason we're not engaged.
"I'm this many." George holds up four, slightly grubby fingers. "But Jase is seventeen and a half. You could. Then you could live in here with him. And have a big family."
Jase strides back into the room, of course, midway through this proposition. "George. Beat it. Discovery Channel is on."
George backs out of the room but not before saying, "His bed's really comfortable. And he never pees in it. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Truth is immortal; error is mortal. — Mary Baker Eddy

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them. — Bruce Springsteen

Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising. — Alexandre Dumas