Quotes About Mast

The name skyscraper is originally nautical. Skyscraper is the tiny, triangular sail flown from the top of the mast.

Stupid rock gods!" Leo yelled from the helm. "That's the third time I've had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?" Nico frowned. "Masts are from trees." "That's not the point!

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

His spear, to equal which the tallest pineHewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mastOf some great ammiral, were but a wand,He walk'd with, to support uneasy stepsOver the burning marle.

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

I had looked upon it as a simple task, what of the oars, mast, boom, and sprit, to say nothing of plenty of lines. But as I was without experience, and as every detail was an experiment and every successful detail an invention, the day was well gone before her shelter was an accomplished fact.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

Time flaps on the mast--

Those interest me. I will climb them. All the way up there? Bridget asked. She felt slightly dizzy just thinking of the view from the mast tops. It seems unnecessary. Rowl turned his head and gave her a level look. Then he said, I sometimes forget that you are just a human. He flicked his ears dismissively and looked back up at the masts. A cat would understand.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.