"Everything in a modern container port is enormous,……" — Rose George

"Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing."

— Rose George

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45 Quotes by Rose George

Rose George has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion…
The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China…
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

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More Container Quotes

This quote is filed under Container Quotes, one of 79 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that… — Jeff Bezos
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night… — Bill Bryson
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going… — T. Harv Eker
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky. — Spider Robinson
Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use… — Epicurus
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily… — Peter Zumthor
I've wanted to be a drummer since I was about five years old. I used to play on a bath… — John Bonham
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite… — Bill Viola
People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to… — Sean Hannity
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan

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