Quotes About Voyage

The double row of berths yawned black, like graves tenanted by uneasy corpses.

I descended the poop

This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.

But most of the women entered the boats--wives escorted by their husbands, single ladies by the men who had volunteered to look out for them. This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage. Tonight the courtesy came in handy.

But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.

passenger ridin' with 'em.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Lymond said suddenly, 'As alternatives, they leave a lot to be desired. Could no one bring us some raki? If we must have a wake let us make it a happy one. Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage. Let's have Jerott's form of decadence for a change.' Jerott said, 'Francis, shut up.

A long sea voyage with Jerott spewing drunk on every deck is not my idea of an adequate quid pro quo.

Something comes out of every voyage," said the other man sharply. "Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor;

The second voyage, carrying soldiers from different parts of Spain and teeming cargo of livestock, was a Noah's ark of pestilence.

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

En voiture, Monsieur,' said the Wagon Lit conductor.

We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had imagined with masses of hotels and roads and motor-cars. We arrived in the early morning, got into our rooms at the hotel, and straight away, seeing out of the window the people surfing on the beach, we rushed down, hired our surf-boards, and plunged into the sea.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

Wasn't the leap from the farm or the small town to the college campus enough cultural dislocation? Wasn't college education itself enough of a voyage?

the road, so he must have driven the

D'abord, cette fois-ci, nous n'allons pas en Egypte (à quoi na sert ?) mais nous voguons vers Carthage.

The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finally had to say to the deputy sheriff, Please die because we don't want to shoot you again. And the deputy sheriff had said, Ok, I'll die, but don't shoot me again. We won't shoot you again, Cameron had said. Ok, I'm dead, and he was.

We head for the mainland, and the long journey home.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.