Mosquito Coast Book Important Quotes & Sayings

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. — Martha Ostenso

Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury. — Gore Vidal

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so. — Ginny Baird

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further. — Lefty Kreh

Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level. — Joel Robuchon

What did Jesus tell his disciples? "Heaven is right here in the midst of you."6 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood. — Eckhart Tolle

Get a shot of love to prevent the infection called depression. — Debasish Mridha

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody. — Karen Armstrong

After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'. — Gabriel Macht

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go
never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them. — Albert Camus

Why are weather people never right? It's probably the only profession in the world where you can be wrong most of time and still keep your job. — Jon Rance

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. — Ray Kurzweil

If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to. — Steven Magee

Pursuit Of Knowledge Is An Attempt To Discover Established Principles Of The Kingdom Of God — Sunday Adelaja

DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO COME TO ME N CRY ... DONT EVER HESITATE TO LOOK ME N THE EYE DONT EVER BE AFRAID TO TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL. REMEMBAER YOUR MY GIRL N WE GOTTA KEEP IT REAL. — Nikki Giovanni