Saltmarsh Quotes & Sayings

I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it. — Sloane Crosley

There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't. — Atul Randev

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine. — Lewis Black

Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy. — Alasdair MacIntyre

Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [ Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but ... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times. — Matt Berninger

Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. — Francis Schaeffer

Mason groaned. "Clinton, you're so dumb it gives me a headache. You heard Cora. She said keep Damon from eating people, not feed people to him." "Who — T.S. Joyce

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. — Jenny Offill

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times. — Anja Niedringhaus

The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood of the electric or magnetic bodies, and it may be called a Dynamical Theory, because it assumes that in the space there is matter in motion, by which the observed electromagnetic phenomena are produced. — James Clerk Maxwell

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you. — Joe Orton

Nothing like love to put blood
back in the language,
the difference between the beach and its
discrete rocks and shards, a hard
cuneiform, and the tender cursive
of waves; bone and liquid fishegg, desert
and saltmarsh, a green push
out of death. The vowels plump
again like lips or soaked fingers, and the fingers
themselves move around these
softening pebbles as around skin. The sky's
not vacant and over there but close
against your eyes, molten, so near
you can taste it. It tastes of
salt. What touches you is what you touch. — Margaret Atwood

My daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?' — Bill Medley

If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life. — Eugene Burger

Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?

Give them me.
No.

Give them me. Give them me.
No.

Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
Lie in the mud and howl for them.

Goblin, why do you love them so?

They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.

Hush, I stole them out of the moon.

Give me your beads, I want them.
No.

I will howl in the deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.
No. — Harold Monro