Dismasted Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I have heard something curious on that score sir, how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will still be pricking him at time. — Herman Melville

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. — Elliott Abrams

He was a canny old rascal. "I'm no pirate," James said. "I have been in the navy since I was eleven." "The way my daughter tells it, you hailed our late and not particularly lamented skipper, and threatened him with a broadside. When Molineaux did not heave to, you dismasted the Sally and boarded her. And it was the Wasp that sailed away with the gold. If you don't think that's piracy, my boy, I suggest you make a closer study of the word. — Donna Thorland

Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get. — Iain M. Banks

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds. — Alex Scally

His brows knotted just a bit. He knew that she knew. Because of course he did. Players at their level didn't deceive each other. They won even though their opponents knew exactly what was happening. Just like he was winning against her right now. — James S.A. Corey

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves. — Eric Balfour

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen

The beauty is the balance. — Frazey Ford

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit. — Sol Saks

For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — Alexander Pope

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. — Pablo Neruda

There are three lies in life," Sutherland said to his young companion, whose first night this was in the realm of homosexuality and whose introduction to it Sutherland had taken upon himself to supervise. "One, the check is in the mail. Two, I will not come in your mouth. And three, all Puerto Ricans have big cocks," he said. — Andrew Holleran

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. — Nancy Johnson

No matter how much we're on our phones, going to the show is the goal - you look at things online and watch videos and read blogs and comment, all so that you can go in person and see it yourself, and meet these people in real life, and then so you can go home and talk about it again on your screen. — Darren Criss