Nathaniel Philbrick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Men #Tragedy #Needs
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a Terrible Towel.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Towels #Firsts #Patriot
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Adventure #Mind #Persons
You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Underestimate #Influence
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Children #Home #Twenties
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Writing #Stuff #Way
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Wall #Ocean #Inspiration
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrilling. The only hope is to have some real enthusiasm for the book. ... Above all, you need some strong emotional or personal connection to your material.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Strong #Real #Book
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, â€œAll mortal greatness is but disease.
-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Greatness #Men #Ahab

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Nathaniel Philbrick famous quotes

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