The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right… — Betty White Copy Share Image
The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the… — Melissa Leo 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
Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for… — Matthew Dickman Copy Share Image
Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of… — Luqman Copy Share Image
What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you… — Joseph P. Allen Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Kane Copy Share Image
It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man… — Ted Knight Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are… — Louis Nowra Copy Share Image
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house.… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image