Barnacles Quote by John Green Download Open image “Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barnacles Consciousness Philosophy of Mind Ships
“We’re all just side effects, right?” “‘Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,” — John Green Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its… — William Banting Copy Share Image
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. — Vance Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End. — Patrick Star Copy Share Image
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
