Quote by Dan Lopez

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

— Rose George

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.”

— James Moloney

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and…

— Knut Hamsun

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

— Diana Gabaldon

“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

“The ship had made the jump into hyperspace, so there were no stars or worlds to be seen, just a vortex of light and…

— Max Nowaz

“for there was no vessel—at least of Man’s making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“so it was hard to see the thousands of two-foot tall humanistic shapes suspended from overhead conveyor hooks.”

— D.A. Metrov

“The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.”

— Michael Chabon

“Ships passing in broad daylight.”

— Haruki Murakami