Astern Quotes

#1. Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Jack Adams

#2. In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim).

Herman Melville

#3. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

A.P. Herbert

#4. Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

Joseph Conrad

#5. I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs - sick little lambs.

John Flanagan

#6. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. Their

David McCullough

#7. I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country.

Rob Portman

#8. All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Mark Crispin Miller

#9. Tender thoughts of Paris was that that kind of film. It was a bittersweet comedy that hit people where they were most vulnerable: in the hear

Nicolas Barreau

#10. Your confidence in me is heartwarming.
Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.

Jennifer Echols

#11. Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

David E. Hoffman

#12. Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

Henning Mankell

#13. The world could be standing still, and we'd all be just as dizzy.

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

#14. Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

Jeet Banerjee

#15. You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!

Scroobius Pip

#16. Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.

J.R. Rim

#17. For smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer's name and clung to his dwelling-place that the affectionate parasite quite overpowered the parent tree.

Charles Dickens

#18. All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

David Mitchell

#19. Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

Bootsy Collins

#20. A few drinks and the world was hers -
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.

Atticus Poetry

#21. I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

Rachel Bloom