Yachtings Quotes & Sayings

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. — Sue Monk Kidd

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here — Robert M. Fresco

And take up their cross. That cross is already there, ready, from the very beginning; we need only take it up. But to keep us from believing that we must simply choose any arbitrary cross, or simply pick out our suffering as we will, Jesus emphasizes that each of us has his or her own cross, ready, appointed, and appropriately measured by God.1 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think the world's still gonna be here in another 10, 20 years. But I'm not feeling great about things ecologically. — Woody Harrelson

I had definitely never heard of anyone peeing in a cup and leaving it in their own office on a bookshelf to evaporate and be absorbed back into their body through the pores on their face. — Tina Fey

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do. — Stevie Wonder

I wanted an impressionistic effect, so I highlighted down her arms and the back of one hand. The other I left curled on one side and picked out her shoulders and collar bone. Then down to her navel, which I also highlighted in gold.
Then I took a small paintbrush and hovered above her nipples.
'Gold, or pink?'
'Oh, definitely gold,' she said.
I painted her nipples and areola, and she giggled.
'Interesting,' she said, lifting her head and looking down. — A.E. Rawson

They're butterflies because ... well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans. — Katsura Hoshino

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know ... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing. — Helena Christensen

The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences. — Georges Cuvier

I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often. — Karen Marie Moning

Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint. He must derive some other, wiser way of behaving toward the land. He must be more attentive to the biological imperatives of the system of sun-driven protoplasm upon which he, too, is still dependent. Not because he must, because he lacks inventiveness, but because herein is the accomplishment of the wisdom that for centuries he has aspired to. Having taken on his own destiny, he must now think with critical intelligence about where to defer. — Barry Lopez

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service? — Frederick Forsyth

Sometimes things don't always go the way we want this side of Heaven — Adriana Trigiani