Shipmates Ardmore Quotes & Sayings

Your atom, I think it will never go back to peace, to cereal or rocks or anything like that. Once it has been seduced there is no way back, the way is always ahead, and it is so much harder after the passage from innocence. But it does not work to pretend to be innocent anymore. That seduced atom has energies that seduce people, and those rarely get lost. — Elif Batuman

The right man in your life will fly across the world to say hello, instead of saying goodbye. — Shannon L. Alder

I want the whole of you, and would never give you less of me. — Alexandra Bracken

I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fail. The people who live will die another day. — Paul Acampora

While there is widespread recognition that the War on Drugs is racist and that politicians have refused to invest in jobs or schools in their communities, parents of offenders and ex-offenders still feel intense shame - shame that their children have turned to crime despite the lack of obvious alternatives. One mother of an incarcerated teen, Constance, described her angst this way: "Regardless of what you feel like you've done for your kid, it still comes back on you, and you feel like, 'Well, maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I messed up. You know, maybe if I had a did it this way, then it wouldn't a happened that way.'" After her son's arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family's suffering private. Constance is not alone. — Michelle Alexander

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience. — Nick Morgan

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody. — Loretta Lynn

We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ... — Seth Grahame-Smith

My pet peeve is the misuse of the word, "quote! — Dan Hokstad

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. — Steve Young

I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it. — Nikki Sixx

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent. — Yanni

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy. — Carrie-Anne Moss

I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know. — John Buchan