Quotes About Ship

In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon. Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it. Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference. "Yonder uplands are rich pasturage, and my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field," says the querulous farmer, "only holds the world together.

A la Virgen María: Que eres mi timonel, que eres la guía de mi oculta sirena cantadora, escrito está en la frente de la proa de mi navío, al Sol del mediodía

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor A ship without an anchor can never be at rest

I have one ship and they call me a pirate. You have a fleet and they call you an Emperor. I can't remember who said it.

and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.

the medical way for a two-month voyage.

If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Hoe voel je je?' 'Als een schip,' zeg ik, 'een schip, een zeilschip dat in een windstilte is terechtgekomen. En dan plotseling is er even weer wat wind vaar ik weer. Dan heeft de wereld weer vat op me en kan ik weer meebewegen.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. —Henrik Ibsen

he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.

You, Sunshine, are a hostage on my ship. Do as ye're told and your stay here will be short, much to the benefit and relief of us both.

She flipped through the pages, noting the meaning of each flag even as another gun poked out of the warship's sides . . . and another. And closed the book with a furious snap. "What's he saying, Captain? What's he saying?" She stared at the big ship, the colorful array of flags waving in the wind. "He says," she muttered, on a dark little laugh, "that if I so much as even think of sailing off, he'll blow us out of the water.

Then he spotted the ship's cat, sprawled lazily in the sun streaming through the stern windows; he bared his teeth and made a face, the cat fled, and the admiral burst out laughing. "Kitty, kitty, kitty!" Sir Graham coaxed, scowling playfully at the cat, who now glared at him from beneath the safety of Colin's desk. A loud, angry hiss met his summons, and, again, the admiral's rich, booming laughter filled the cabin.

Whenever Abrashoff received a suggestion he felt was immediately implementable, he announced the change over the ship's intercom, giving credit to the idea's originator. Over the next three years, on the strength of this and other measures (which are detailed in Abrashoff's book It's Your Ship), the Benfold rose to become one of the navy's highest-ranked ships.

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

patrons. Courage must always be rewarded. The other thing Jacques remembered was looking down the long corridor as Monsieur Horowitz paused at the mosaic in the tile floor by the entrance to the Hôtel Lutetia. It was the symbol of the hotel, and also the ancient symbol of Paris. The city had originally been called Lutetia. And her emblem was a ship in peril on a stormy sea. That symbol was imbedded in the hotel floor.

I am abandoned on the ship of life." "I know." "Jas, you are not really cheering me up." "Well, I know and that is because there is really nothing to be cheerful about; I would hate to be you." in

There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

fear keeps a man even in his words and judgment of things. It may be compared to the ballast of the ship, and to the poise of the balance of the scales; it keeps all even, and also makes us steer our course right with respect to the things that pertain to God and man.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.