(625 quotes found)
“People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings”
Lewis Carroll
“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
George William Curtis
“A small leak can sink a great ship”
Benjamin Franklin
“Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.”
Johnny Depp
“When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it”
Dr. Robert Anthony
“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”
Amelia E. Barr
“When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
