Emblazonings Quotes & Sayings

Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat. — Herman Melville

A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues — E. E. Cummings

The web is an opportunity for those who understand that the web is a threat. — Massimo Moruzzi

Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received. — C.S. Forester

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does. — Sebastian Bach

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. — Mary Harris Jones

You're kind of blind, you know?" Puck whispered, smiling to soften his words. "I wouldn't defy Oberon for just anyone. But, for you ... " He leaned forward, touching his forehead to mine. "I'd come back from the dead for you. — Julie Kagawa

So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore. — Julie Kagawa