Maine Quotes - Page 4

• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. 'It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,' said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. 'I haven't found any colleague who'€™s been enthusiastic about it.'

  Peter Baker

  War, Thinking, President

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• The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

  Angus King

  Thinking, Majority, Would Be

  "Senator Angus King knows that being a man without a party comes with perks" by Ben Terris, wapo.st. October 20, 2014.

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• Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Teenager, Home, Beer

  Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Night, Jail

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

  Paul Theroux

  Boston, Childhood, Heard

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

  Martha Stewart

  Weekend, People, Invites

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• She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

  Lois Lowry

  Husband, Doctors, Wind

  Lois Lowry (1978). “Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.

  Paul LePage

  Whales, People

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• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

  Patrick Dempsey

  New York, Men, Play

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• I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

  E. B. White

  Feel Good, Feels

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• New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

  E. B. White

  Country, New York, Cities

  Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther for The Paris Review (1969); later published in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews", Series eight, 1988.

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• Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero.

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Zumba, Work Out

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• I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Right Now

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• Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Fans, Credit

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• When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Fall, Writing, Winter

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• Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

  Conan O'Brien

  Believe, Gay, Marijuana

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• Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Moved On, England

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• I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Country, Fashion

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• I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

  Noah Gray-Cabey

  Lovers, Environment, Bigs

  "Star Spotlight: Noah Gray-Cabey". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com. 2008.

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• Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Clouds, Laughing

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• Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Self Confidence, Way

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• Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

  Will Rogers

  Oregon, Yield, Talking

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