Marriotts Oceanwatch Quotes & Sayings

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both. — Joan Larkin

The absence of hope can rot a society from within. — Barack Obama

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? — Jasper Fforde

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she. — William Shakespeare

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year. — Dean Wareham

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart. — Liane Holliday Willey

Why doesn't he say something to her?
But I knew why. Because there's the creeping fear that these moments don't actually exist outside your own head. No eyes meet across a crowded room, no two people thing precisely the same thing, and if only one person actually has that moment, is it even really a moment at all?
We know this, so we say nothing. We avert our eyes, or pretend to be looking for change, we hope the other person will take the initiative, because we don't want to risk losing this feeling of excitement and possibilities and lust. It's too perfect. That little second of hope is worth something, possibly for ever, as we lie on out deathbeds, surrounded by our children, and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren, and we can't help but quickly give on last selfish, dying thought to what could have happened if we'd actually said hello to that girl in the Uggs selling CDs outside Nando's seventy-four years earlier. — Danny Wallace

Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together. — Angela Y. Davis

There is no death. There are only different levels of life. — Tom Robbins

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing! — Roksanda Ilincic

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. — Michael Johnson

Treat your life like something to be sculpted. — Larry Niven

The future is built by people's hopes, boy! That's why I can see it so clearly! Anyway, make a wish! Open your mouth, say the words ... and who knows? It may come true! What do you wish for, boy? — Sakura Tsukuba