Ships Quote by Christopher Marlowe

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”

— Christoper Marlowe

[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day.…

— Starhawk

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a…

— Davy Crockett

“Like all Vogon ships, it looked as if it had been not so much designed, as congealed. The unpleasant yellow lumps and edifices which…

— Douglas Adams

“One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have…

— Eoin Colfer

I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories,…

— Rutger Hauer

“The world headquarters of Fukai Semiconductor was housed in a mammoth, sprawling building of glass, polished aluminum and native rock that seemed to be…

— David Hagberg

“About noon, as nearly as we could guess, our attention was again arrested by the appearance of the sun. It gave out no light,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa

“Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking ship on…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The light of a hunter's moon bleached the unresisting pastels from the faces of the towers, so that they looked like titanic ribs of…

— Mike Carey

“As night fell, Yamamoto, aboard the huge battleship Yamato, steamed eastward at full speed into the night. Far ahead the destroyers went to flank…

— Dale A. Jenkins