Starboard Quotes

#1. But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

Herman Melville

#2. Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs - sick little lambs.

John Flanagan

#4. Directly above the starboard engine room, it was also in a state of almost constant vibration, the noise juddering away below their feet with an awesome, leviathan constancy.

Jojo Moyes

#5. (By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All

C.S. Lewis

#6. All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard
skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

David Weber

#8. Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboard rail, gazing over the bay.
Annabeth took his hand. "What are you going to do while we're gone?"
"Jump in the harbor," he said casually, like another kid might say, I'm going to get a snack.

Rick Riordan

#9. Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'?

James Weldon Johnson

#11. If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Kenneth Kaye

#12. One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

C.S. Lewis

#13. The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing to starboard
like a ship in a bottle
Human longing goes on
Loneliness a curse
Innocence persists
Ignorance persists

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#14. I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

Harry Chapin

#15. The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat.

Scott Lynch

#16. The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

Patrick Lencioni

#17. He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched.

E.J. Koh

#18. I'll warn you now that there is one word which is forbidden in this valley: the word 'give.

Ayn Rand

#19. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Sheri Dew

#21. Stars are so much more brilliant when they are allowed to shine.

Kathryn Smith

#22. A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.

Shulamith Firestone

#23. If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

Ayelet Zurer

#24. Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

Margaret Atwood

#25. A scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels,

Donna Tartt

#26. Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.

Israel Wayne

#27. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...

Sanhita Baruah

#28. One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

Frans De Waal

#29. Don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote,

Richard Feynman

#30. I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan