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
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
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
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
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
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
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare 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
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin 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
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast… — Eric Bolling 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
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
“All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned… — Henry Miller 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
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
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as… — George Gilder 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
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
Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or… — L. Frank Baum 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
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
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
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
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
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
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the… — Karl Shapiro 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
