Samuel Eliot Morison Statue Quotes & Sayings

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. — Martin Cruz Smith

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Alan Sillitoe

I feel there is something almost sacred about building a boat ... It is almost like creating a living being, a boat seems to have a soul and character all her own ... It requires more thought to give a boat a good name than it does a child. — John Guzzwell

His lips slowly twitched. "As a gentleman, I think you should sleep off the drugs in your system." Again, his wide, full lips curved wickedly. "Unless you plan to move your hand lower, then I might forget I'm acting the gentleman because, really, I'm not all that gentlemanly. — Scarlett Dawn

Don't find the fault, find the remedy — Henry Ford

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. — Nelson Mandela

Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease
the problem of being right too often. — Scott Adams

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region. — Kim Dae-jung

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life. — Dougray Scott

Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you're Canadian and people laugh — John Candy

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work. — Lars Von Trier

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels. — Peter York

Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially. — Anupam Kher