Shipwright Quotes

#1. As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

Herman Melville

#2. The day I die, I'll be too busy thinking to notice he waved his hand as he left the ship.
- Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance

A.Z. Kelvin

#3. They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Albert Camus

#4. Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive.

Luke Blaise Pereira

#5. One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Dorothy Nevill

#6. Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Aristotle.

#7. I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy.

Gillian Flynn

#8. When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wrong from time to time, unless we're saints, which we aren't.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.

Pete Munro

#10. The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Laura E. Richards

#13. Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

Georges St-Pierre

#14. It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

Emily Blunt

#15. Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Tariq Ramadan

#16. The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Karl Kraus