Alabama Quote by Tina Brown

“Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to…

— Neal Stephenson

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey…

— Greil Marcus

“Job Bayley, facing death for piracy in a Charleston courtroom in 1718, was asked by the attorney general of South Carolina why he and…

— Marcus Rediker

“He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened…

— Karl Schroeder

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this…

— Tobias Lindholm

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook…

— Edmund Hillary

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will…

— John Cheever

“Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and…

— Kelley Armstrong

“Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the…

— Candice Millard

“In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Von Schnitzler’s job was to show extracts from western television broadcast into the GDR—anything from news items to game shows to ‘Dallas’—and rip it…

— Anna Funder

It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in…

— Colin Firth