Bigs Quote by Elliot Johnson

“About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the southeast of Sidmouth, and a…

— H.G. Wells

“Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the distance, steel-blue mountains loomed heavy on the horizon, their shoulders burdened with the same accursed snow the gods were currently depositing upon…

— Hazel Butler

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

— Josh Ritter

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

— Anonymous

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells.

— Dorie Miller

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of…

— Nicholas Monsarrat

“Viewed from above, on the mainmast shroud, they seemed suddenly so small, this little circle, making music, clustered on a floating stage, with the…

— Harvey Oxenhorn

“All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly…

— Ernest Hemingway

They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course…

— Markus Zusak