Life Quote by Jeffery Hess

“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

“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

“Just as I’m about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a…

— Shannon M Mullen

“With the words, “We commit the body to the deep,” the end of the plank was lifted, and the hammock, heavily weighted at the…

— John D. Whidden

“Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could…

— David Gemmell

“The water was tripping over itself, splashing and hypnotizing, and I tried to fix my mind on a chunk of it, like each little…

— Justin Torres

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the…

— Christina Engela

“You sank our toy ship / sank it deep in the cake. You shook up our house / and you bent our new rake!"…

— Dr. Suess

“My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I…

— Antonia Michaelis

“From seawater. They were at a port of some kind. And around her . . . those were ConEx containers. The kind that were shipped on…

— Elisabeth Naughton