Maintop Quotes & Sayings

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. — George Carlin

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. — John Ruskin

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie. — Stephen Richards

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea. — Samuel Wilberforce

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it. — Elton John

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others. — Jack Canfield

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on. — Martin Clunes

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The — James Gleick

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. — George Will

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama XIV

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable. — Henry Ward Beecher

When we need somebody haunted we investigate ... When we investigate we do so noisily always. — L. Ron Hubbard

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. — Claudius

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs.
Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. — Patrick O'Brian