Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End. — Patrick Star Copy Share Image
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch with me… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
