7 Quotes Tagged: ships

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That’s you, you’re that beautiful. A thousand ships.

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

We all came in on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Quale nell’ arzana de Viniziani
bolle l’inverno la tenace pece
a rimpalmar li lor legni non sani,

che navicar non ponno, e in quella vece
chi fa suo legno nuovo, e chi ristoppa
le coste a quel che piu viaggi fece;

che ribatti da proda, e chi da poppa;
altri fa remi, ed altri volge sarti;
chi terzeruolo ed artimon rintoppa...

(Inferno XXI 7-15)

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.