Books Quote by John Sayles

“Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.”

— Kōbō Abe

“there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as…

— Joseph Conrad

“I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.”

— Franklin W. Dixon

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...”

— Joseph Conrad

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...”

— Emily Dickinson

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it.…

— China Miéville

“When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself and discover the beauty of the world. Fishy”

— Lily Amis

“A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered-it all demands a fierce revenge”

— Mitch Albom

“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to…

— Petrarch

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima