Steersman's Quotes

#1. Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port
May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part
Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.

Ben Jonson

#2. I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

Claudia Rankine

#3. His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King.

Terry Pratchett

#4. But Polybius brought out the basic lesson in his reflection-'for as a ship, if you deprive it of its steersman, falls with all its crew into the hands of the enemy; so, with an army in war, if you outwit or out-manoeuvere its general, the whole will often fall into your hands'.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#5. The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Carl Jung

#6. The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

Chris Martin

#7. What would it take for you to go out with me?

Simone Elkeles

#8. Gawd might forgive but people never will.

Alice Childress

#9. The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.

Mary Engelbreit

#11. The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta.

Deyth Banger

#12. The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

Cennino Cennini

#13. I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry.

Patricia Martin