Quotes About The Nautilus

#1. that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same

Jules Verne

#2. The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Jules Verne

#3. I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope.

Jules Verne

#4. Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.

Jules Verne

#5. It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

Jules Verne

#6. If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

Linda Evangelista

#7. Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote

Tessa Dare

#8. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Alexander Pope

#9. Apparently I'm not the only one - we've been hearing that some consumers actually started lining up outside stores days ago in anticipation of the new Nautilus. A few analysts are projecting more than seven or eight million sales in the first week alone.

Alena Graedon

#10. I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Donna Dixon

#11. These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.

John L. Parker Jr.

#12. I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

Anna Quindlen

#13. As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.

Andrew Sean Greer

#14. The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

Waldemar Kaempffert