And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! — Walter Scott 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 terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender — Ron Pickering Copy Share Image
The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if… — Edward Kennedy 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
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half… — Judy Garland 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
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is… — Geoffrey Chaucer 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
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One… — Davy Jones 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
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the… — Anonymous 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
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
I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or… — Daniel Quinn 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
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
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
Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant—the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There… — Herman Melville 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
You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and… — Christian Morgenstern 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
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the… — Sting Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but… — John Milton 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
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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