A Thousand Ships Quotes

#1. She worked up her most blinding smile, the one that could stop traffic and launch a thousand ships, that could destroy a man or make him feel a thousand feet tall. "Hello, Brother Jacob.

Alisha Rai

#2. Darius squared his shoulders, wishing he had something other than his handkerchief to keep his hands occupied while she stood this close, looking so angry and at the same time as wildly beautiful, dangerous, and breathtaking as a thunderstorm at sea. A face to sink a thousand ships...

Jayne Fresina

#3. It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht.

Grant Naylor

#4. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Christopher Marlowe

#5. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.

Terry Pratchett

#6. 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.

Edmund White

#7. She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.

Andrea Speed

#9. [ ... ]Since then it's been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face."
"The Face?" Lucas asked.
"That Launched a Thousand Ships," Daphne said, repeating the title automatically. "It's our curse.

Josephine Angelini

#10. For Beatrice, when we first met,
I was lonely, and you were pretty.
Now I am pretty lonely.

Lemony Snicket

#11. It consisted of nine levels, with docking facilities that could handle almost ten thousand ships,

Mike Resnick

#12. Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; brighten the corner where you are.

Ardis Stenbakken

#13. There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Rose George

#14. [Southward and a little west
A thousand kilometers at best
Here in Area Fifty-one
Is where they took us, all undone.
Other ships are here as well
Their fate, like ours, is sad to tell.]

Marcha A. Fox

#15. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#17. Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#18. that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor

Sarah Vowell

#19. Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

Joan Jett

#20. Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

A.E. Samaan

#21. Neaten the edges by zig-zagging. Do NOT zig-zag the seams

Prime Publishing

#22. Do good and be a good person because that's just what the Lord expects. There just ain't nothing special about being and doing good. It's what the Lord expects ...

Andrew Galasetti

#23. I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Bill Bryson

#24. I also learned that about ten thousand containers fall off ships each year. Sometimes after a period of years the container doors pop open and the contents float to the surface.

Bill Bryson

#25. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.