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Quotes About Ship

I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..
~ Adel Abouhana
And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.
~ Aldous Huxley
Il mondo, magari, non l'aveva visto mai. Ma erano ventisette anni che il mondo passava su quella nave: ed erano ventisette anni che lui, su quella nave, lo spiava. E gli rubava l'anima.
~ Alessandro Baricco - Novecento
This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?
~ Alexandre Dumas
Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The church is in the world the way a ship is in the ocean, and that is the way it should be. But bad things start happening when the ocean gets into the ship.
~ Douglas Wilson
I blew myself up, Im on some martyr shit. Carry the weight for my city like a cargo ship.
~ Drake
Dolphin-safe tuna, that's great if you're a dolphin. What if you're a tuna? Somewhere there's a tuna flopping around a ship going, "What about me? I'm not cute enough for you?"
~ Drew Carey
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
~ Edmund Wilson
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.
~ Mardy Grothe
There upon the water was a large ship, a skeleton against the sky, collapsed and flailing into the rocks close to shore, broken apart and drowning. The scene was all deep blues and grays and whites and the wild waves lifting it all like deep gasping breaths.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
But then it's difficult, isn't it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring. Whereas the delightful alternative? A bouquet of promises! A sackful of dreams! A glorious ship of fantasies, undamaged by collision with actually getting anything done.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
~ Anne Bishop
A cold ship moves out of harbor somewhere way inside the wife and slides off toward the flat gray horizon, not a bird not a breath in sight.
~ Anne Carson
taking in a main mast, shortening the
~ Fern Michaels
I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Am s? m? pierd în cea??,ca un str?in de toate,insul? uman? detaÅŸat? de visul m?rii,nav? înc?rcat? inutil cu prea mult? fiin?? ÅŸi prea mult din tot restul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
~ Robin Hobb
Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.
~ Robin Hobb
In the space of a handful of nights, her whole concept of what a ship was underwent a sea-change.
~ Robin Hobb
GRIGSBY: Ship's cat. Orange and obnoxious.
~ Robin Hobb
well. It was as if he himself were embodied afresh in this lad. He could protect this boy as he had not been protected himself. He had the power to stave off the destructive forces that had once torn his own life apart. After all, they were not that different. The ship had said so. To protect him would be like saving himself.
~ Robin Hobb
But he became known as a bad luck ship, mockingly called the Pariah.
~ Robin Hobb