Quote by Aldous Huxley

“the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.”

— Rose George

“My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a…

— Haruki Murakami

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Maybe we all need ships to hold our dreams, to be bigger and steadier than we ever could be, and to guard the mistery…

— Hilary T. Smith

“I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think…

— Ayn Rand

“Far too many times in life we throw ourselves in ships without knowing how stable they are, or how deep is the water for…

— Nomthandazo Tsembeni

“Tiny slivers of life--they all added up and helped you to feel that you too could be a fragment, a little piece of humanity…

— Gail Honeyman

“How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years still in my pocket. But it's late, for all of us, and…

— Mary Oliver

“On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)”

— Scott Spencer

“Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.”

— Rae Armantrout

“I also learned that about ten thousand containers fall off ships each year. Sometimes after a period of years the container doors pop open…

— Bill Bryson

“The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization…

— Michelle Madow