Alice Munro Quotes

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Scotland is so gorgeous that every time I'm there, I start to dream of living there. I want to buy one of those whitewashed cottages with the thatch roofs and gaze out at the sea and read my books. I want to be away from the Internet and the news and lawn mowers at 7 A.M. on Sunday mornings.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

Anything for a quiet life.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

There's something really simple and idyllic about living in a house very close to the water.

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

I am a sailor.

… navigating all boats that might be propelled by steam, on all waters within the territory, or jurisdiction of the State, for the term of twenty years.

I want to be able to live in a way that isn't too hectic. Calm. And I want those around me to be sublimely happy as well.

I am old. My wish now is for an easy, easy life.

I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.

I have my life on the field, but when I finish that, I want a quiet life with my family.