I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea.… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't… — Jory John Copy Share Image
Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of… — E. B. White 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
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they've lived through one international humiliation after another, one after another. We all… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image