Nautical Friends Quotes & Sayings

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone's. It is shareware. I like it, I like having been a part of it, I would kill or die to protect those who are part of it, but I don not claim exclusivity. Have it Take it from me. Do with is what you will. Make it useful. This is like making electricity from dirt; it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff. — Dave Eggers

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to. — Orlando Bloom

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot. — Miles Franklin

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. — George Bernard Shaw

In the synagogue of my heart ...
I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked — Helene Cixous

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young? — Joseph Addison

Psychological abuse is.. the sustained, repetitive, inappropriate behavior which damages or substantially reduces the creative and developmental potential of crucially important mental faculties and mental processes of a child, including intelligence, memory, recognition, perception, attention, imagination, and moral development. — Kieran O'Hagan

What's chumming?" I asked, wondering if it was some old English nautical term for making friends. — Raleigh Blake

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition — Henry Ford

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me. — Lance Armstrong

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

It's like making a sandwich. I start with the bread and the meat. That's the architecture. Add some cheese, lettuce and tomato. That's character development and polishing. Then, the fun part. All the little historical details and the slang and the humor is the mayonnaise. I go back and slather that shit everywhere. The mayo is the best part. I'm a bit messy with the mayo. — Laini Giles

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink. — Neel Mukherjee