Coffin Ship Quotes

#1. I'm not a great singer

Dave Mustaine

#2. Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Charles Dickens

#3. Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Terry Branstad

#4. Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

N. Scott Momaday

#5. We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Steve Forbes

#6. When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

Brian Blessed

#7. It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.

Aristotle.

#8. God, I can't believe we're talking about this.

Bella Jeanisse

#9. Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#10. Choreography is writing on your feet.

Bob Fosse

#11. An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Elizabeth McCracken

#12. Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together - man, you got it.

Colin Powell

#13. Mint-street and Kent-street--those old plague-spots that disgrace and disfigure the fair face of the Borough of Southwark--teem with blackguardism and vice; but here, too, you find that the birds who here flock are strictly of a feather. Cow-cross,

Henry Mayhew

#14. Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

Theodore Dalrymple

#15. I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship.

Patrick O'Brian