Speedboats Quotes & Sayings

We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy? — Cinda Williams Chima

Susan is happy off on another project to save yet another endangered creature. But I miss Irving, and though Susan would laugh at me probably, I like to think that Irving is somewhere chasing angelic speedboats, or maybe he's got his own wings. Surely, even God needs a laugh now and then, and Irving is a funny guy, for a monster. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Everything in life has let me down. — Richey Edwards

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. — Jonathan Feldman

I can't keep trying to want to live. It's getting too hard. — Melody Valadez

We need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked over. Because we're men? No. Because we're consumers. Because those are things we like, things we intrinsically feel or have been conned into believing will give us value, release satisfaction. We value them so we need to at least have the illusion of their availability. For tits and arse read coke, crisps, speedboats, cars, houses, computers, designer labels, replica shirts. That's why advertising and pornography are similar; they sell the illusion of availability and the non-consequence of consumption. — Irvine Welsh

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall. — Colin Mochrie

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. They were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr's fireplace. They had ridden in speedboats and played tennis. They had been horseback riding. One had once been to bed with an older woman. They knew the same poeple in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other's cousins. — Joseph Heller

Who's Jessie?"
"My Yugo"
"You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick."
"Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now. — Rachel Cohn

We have started calling him grandfather. — Yuvraj Singh

To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow. — Gail Simone

I just want to be a guy with a guitar. — Jeff Buckley

I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better. — Trisha Leigh