Vivian Jenkins quotes

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.
-- Vivian Jenkins

#Islands #Lines #May

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.