Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!

“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!”

— Herge

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”

— Hergé

“Doctor Simons? This is Thomson... No, without a ‘P’, as in Venezuela...”

— Hergé

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us…

— Nick Flynn

Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

— Patrick Star

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

— Vance Gilbert

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human…

— Thomas Merton

But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of…

— Richard J. Foster

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of…

— Augusten Burroughs

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a…

— Fred Allen

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

— John Green

Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones…

— Janet Fitch

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its…

— William Banting

“I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin”

— Deborah Heiligman