Quote by 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

“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden…

— Louis Nowra

“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

“Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought…

— Susanna Clarke

“A friend of Diagoras pointed out an expensive display of votive gifts and said, ' You think the gods have no care for man?…

— Diagoras of Melos

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them…

— Virginia Woolf

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and…

— Herman Melville

“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged…

— Georges Rodenbach

“He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened…

— Karl Schroeder

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long…

— Terry Pratchett

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more…

— John D. MacDonald