The Shipping News Quotes & Sayings

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then. — Anthony Edwards

I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan. — Torquil Campbell

People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars. — Antoni Lange

She would lie awake,
Every night I'd hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay,
I guess she couldn't take goodbye — Ray Wilson

What do you think,' she said. Her voice was rapid. 'You want to
marry me, don't you? Don't you think you want to marry me?' Waited for
the wisecrack. As she spoke she changed in some provocative way,
seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool
gleams like chrome with a sheet of unbroken water for a fractional
second. — Annie Proulx

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. — Joseph Conrad

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. — Lasse Hallstrom

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace. — Seth Godin

All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time. — Annie Proulx

Ilsa looked slightly aggrieved at the news that Robin still intended to marry someone other than Strike, but before she could say anything else Strike's mobile buzzed in his pocket. — Robert Galbraith

The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork. — Annie Proulx

The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day. — Annie Proulx

The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening. — Annie Proulx

The past bubbled out of his black mouth. — Annie Proulx

You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her. — Annie Proulx

Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself. — Channing Tatum

Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ. — M. Russell Ballard

Insanity is just a state of mind. — Alan Alda