Gugusan Maritime Quotes & Sayings

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe

My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden! — Edgar Lee Masters

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer. — Steven Hall

It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn't want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only "something else" worth living. — Jackie Haze

He looked with horror round the room: nobody could say he hadn't done right to get away from this, to commit any crime ... When the man opened his mouth he heard his father speaking, that figure in the corner was his mother: he bargained for his sister and felt no desire ... He turned to Rose, 'I'm off,' and felt the faintest tinge of pity for goodness which couldn't murder to escape. — Graham Greene

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system. — Trevor Paglen

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story. — Marilynn Halas

Be happy and well and forget me fast. — Elizabeth Finn

There are no dates here. Only time passing with each moment. — Jay McLean