Berth Quotes

#1. Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.

Hermann Hesse

#2. We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Tina Thompson

#3. Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.

Amah Lambert

#5. If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.

Tom Althouse

#6. Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth - give berth to your worldview.

Kamini Arichandran

#7. You know what your problem is, Sasha?" Rex said. "You always want to have every little detail worked out in advance. You've got to leave some room for improvisation." "My concern, sir, is that you've given such a wide berth to improvisation that you've left no room for planning." "You

Robert Kroese

#8. I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound, as if a vessel filled with liquid had been placed on its side and now was slowly emptying out.

Jamaica Kincaid

#9. Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Jonathan Raban

#11. trees [-]
Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a 'person-of-the-arts,' limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind's music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#12. Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

George Gershwin

#13. I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Edward Herrmann

#14. All through the 1960s, success was determined by birth: which house or which last name you were born into. But over the next couple of decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, success was determined by education. Now, thankfully, talent has been given its own berth,

Raghu Ram

#15. Harm began to come to Hornblower from that day forth, despite his obedience to orders and diligent study of his duties, and it stemmed from the arrival in the midshipmen's berth of John Simpson as senior warrant officer.

C.S. Forester

#16. The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights on its orbicular architecture switched on, the circuit would radiate like a constellation of stars

Soroosh Shahrivar

#17. The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#18. I wasn't cute or passive enough to be "femme," and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be "butch." I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.

Audre Lorde

#19. Mrs. Gotch a wide berth - I couldn't talk to them. I could,

Henry James

#20. And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Marilyn Monroe

#22. We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone ... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious ... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

Peter Morgan

#23. Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#24. Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

#25. Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth.

Veronica Wolff

#26. Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him (pp. 94-95).

A.W. Tozer

#27. Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving

Carl Sagan

#28. If you are an outgoing, positive, can-do type of person, I think you'll love calling Charlotte home.

Harry Hoover

#29. My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

May Sarton

#30. I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Cyndi Lauper

#31. That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

Ted Alexandro

#32. Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Eric Hoffer

#33. If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

George Soros