Quote by Maria Semple Download Open image ““Seattle is the only city where you step in shit and you pray, Please God, let this be dog shit.”” — Maria Semple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Seattle. It rains there a lot." Well, this is going great. Conversationalist of the Year. I'll just continue to recite basic facts about US… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.” — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“In Seattle there is a constant hope for a period called “two days in a row when it doesn’t fucking rain.” — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie. — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me… — Felix Hernandez Copy Share Image
“Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Here’s something about Mom: she’s bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn’t refill her water after she’s asked three… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Parking in Seattle is an eight-step process. Step one, find a place to park (gooood luuuuck!). Step two, back into the angled parking space… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Eleanor's heart giggled with mad abundance: so much to share, so much goodwill, so many notes to compare, so many ways to help and… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago I saw a documentary on the siege of that Moscow theater. After just forty-eight hours of the terrorists confining the hostages… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker,… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image