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Rowing Quotes (page 2)

Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Hunter S. Thompson
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. Neil Gaiman
Goodbye Norma Jean. From the young man in the 22nd row. Who sees you as something more than sexual. More than just our Marilyn Monroe Elton John
Cotton rows crisscross the world. And dead-tired nights of yearning. Thunderbolts on leather strops. And all my body burning. Sugar cane reach up to God. And every baby crying. Shame a blanket of my night. And all my days are dying Maya Angelou
Ray Bradbury quote: "Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52..."
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. Ray Bradbury
It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy. Terry Prachett
And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing. Herman Melville
Richard Brautigan quote: "Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars."
Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Richard Brautigan
Erma Bombeck quote: "Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be..."
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck
He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in. J. D. Salinger
Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to... Bill Bryson
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. Voltaire
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! Anne Frank
Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say. Angela Carter
Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..."Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically. J. K. Rowling

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