Watercraft Quotes & Sayings

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage. — John Lurie

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. — Walt Whitman

Beauty isn't between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical. — Ellen DeGeneres

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself. — Bettie Page

The heart never grows old. — Pearl S. Buck

When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer ... Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He ... had heard that Mr. Duche ... deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche ... might be desired to read prayers to the Congress ... After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. — John Adams

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. — Steven Bochco

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else. — William Hazlitt

But here's the thing: He didn't get hung. The man climbed on a wooden watercraft and collided with North America by accident. It doesn't matter what happened afterwards or what his motives were. He found it. It happened. He's what history is. It was his destiny to be that particular man, and it was his destiny to do those specific things. — Chuck Klosterman

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant. — Thomas Merton

Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love. — Thomas Campion

Trouble? Everybody gets into trouble in America
That's what it's about. — Kate Alcott

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. — Helen Keller

Take off your glasses."
"Why? I thought you liked my glassess."
"I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off. — Rainbow Rowell

He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them. — Ford Madox Ford