Lloyd Biggle, Jr. quotes

Lloyd Biggle, Jr. quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.”
-- Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

#Ocean Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Scales Quotes

“On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
“There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”
“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”
“Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.239, Macmillan
“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”
“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”
“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
“On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.”

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