Anthony Doerr Quotes

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Love
  • Enjoy
  • Place

• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Up
  • Down
  • Boat

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Player
  • Same

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Best
  • Boat
  • Greek

• 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Small

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in power just a few hours away from Italy by boat.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Power
  • Government
  • Italian

• I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • House
  • Nice
  • Sick

• The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Win

• I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Think
  • Child

• A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Boat
  • Tide

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Man
  • Refer

• One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Joy
  • Car

• Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Proud
  • Boat

• We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Police

• Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Great
  • Education

• I can go back to when I was six years old. I was always getting in trouble for dreaming, and the things I got in trouble for dreaming then are the things I'm doing today.

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Today
  • Things
  • Years

• Literally, my earliest memory, my earliest vivid memory, is the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Yeah, I was in fourth grade, and I was just so captivated. And I think you'll find a lot of space scientists of my generation will say the same thing. Apollo was a big event for them.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Space
  • Moon

• I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Boat