We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the…

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

— Deborah Heiligman

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

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

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

— John Green

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

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

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

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

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

— Vance Gilbert

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

— Patrick Star

“Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!”

— 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

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so…

— Deb Caletti

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow