Hatches For Boats Quotes & Sayings

Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man. — Tom Piccirilli

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'. — Stephen King

Nova Scotia is a box bass and a fiddle and German sourdough and scotch eggs. And the air, all heavy and bracing and wet. When you're driving, you wave to the old guy walking along the side of the road in the plaid flannel shirt and he waves back, because it's just what you do. This is an extraordinarily hospitable and musical place. You've got to haul wood in the winter and batten down hatches during hurricanes, and there are bagpipes and banjos and weathered old barns and whales offshore and abandoned fishing boats sleeping on the beach. — Kate Inglis

No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: — Hope Jahren

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off. — Mohammed Emami-Kashani

It happened so quickly. One minute I was plucking the flower, and the next I was in his chariot immersed in darkness. I struggled to wrench myself free from his grasp and run away. I twisted as far as I could, hoping to see mother chasing after me. But ahead of me, behind me, on either side of me, everywhere I looked, all I could see was darkness. — Tamara Agha-Jaffar

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way. — Mark Nepo

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables. — Eric Martinot

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. — Euripides

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. — Gloria Steinem

Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?"
Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already".
"Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?"
"I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know? — Paullina Simons