Shipwright Pointe Quotes & Sayings

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. — Emily Bronte

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered. — Edward Felten

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — V.S. Pritchett

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those. — Brad Pitt

The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters. — Sophie B. Hawkins

Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep. — Robert Browning

One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men forever unequal in one respect, yet equal in others; they must, in the end, come to be equal in all.
Now, I am aware of only two means of establishing equality in the world of politics: rights have to be granted to every citizen or to none. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious - a changed quality of mind and heart, satisfactions no non-novelist can understand - and its rigors generally bring no profit except to the spirit. For those who are authentically called to the profession, spiritual profits are enough.
John Gardner — Marcy Sheiner

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.
-Royce Westmoreland — Judith McNaught

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. — Charles Dickens

They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris. — Robin Sloan

The Americans are impatient by nature. — Bui Diem

Ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky. — Markus Zusak