Top 30 Quotes About Barnacles
#1. I could see nothing behind that child's eye. 40
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
T. S. Eliot
#2. Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.
Janet Fitch
#3. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.
Michael Leunig
#4. Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.
Nicholas Day
#5. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
Margaret Atwood
#6. Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
#7. Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.
Michael Leunig
#8. There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.
Graham Greene
#9. The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
Stephen Hunter
#10. To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.
Thomas Merton
#11. When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on a ship.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#12. God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
J.G. Holland
#13. In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.
William Carlos Williams
#14. No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen
#15. The Captain's boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes and planks and barnacles and then nodding to show that he approved of whatever they happened to be doing.
Gideon Defoe
#16. Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
Geoff Johns
#18. Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#19. A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Donald Barthelme
#20. Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
William Banting
#23. Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
John Green
#24. Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.
John Darnielle
#25. Teaching a man how to clean barnacles from a keel is an amazing useful talent, one any child should be fortunate to learn. Magochiro is our champion barnaclebully at present. String him under a keel, and he will bring back dinner enough for ten.
Michelle Franklin
#26. Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!
Herge
#27. Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA.
John Green
#28. On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Fred Allen
#29. God knew she was a troublesome wench, with a tongue that could strip the barnacles off a ship's hull.
Sabrina Jeffries
#30. I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
Vance Gilbert
