Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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