Soused Quotes & Sayings

Had I guns (as I had goods) to work my Christian harm.

I had run him up from the quarter deck to trade with his own yard-arm;

I had nailed his ears to my capstan-head, and ripped them off with a saw,

And soused them in the bilgewater, and served them to him raw;

I had flung him blind in a rudderless boat to rot in the rocking dark,

I had towed him aft of his own craft, a bait for his brother shark;

I had lapped him round with cocoa husk, and drenched him with the oil,

And lashed him fast to his own mast to blaze above my spoil;

I had stripped his hide for my hammock-side, and tasseled his beard in the mesh,

And spitted his crew on the live bamboo that grows through the gangrened flesh. — Rudyard Kipling

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — Damien Hirst

Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories. — Pam Allyn

This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Who knows what exciting things might be just over the next hill. — Janette Oke

Ronan's smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare. — Maggie Stiefvater

In binghamton, new york, winter meant snow, and though I was young when we left, I was able to recall great heaps of it, and use that memory as evidence that North Carolina was, at best, a third-rate institution. What little snow there was would usually melt an hour or two after hitting the ground, and there you'd be in your windbreaker and unconvincing mittens, forming a lumpy figure made mostly of mud. Snow Negroes, we called them. The — David Sedaris

Kairos moment. An' it means," and from somewhere in his soused brain he dredged up words of surprising clarity, "the telling moment. The special moment. The supreme moment. — Robert Galbraith

He'd given her his word - when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her - but still his — Kresley Cole

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense. — Astrid Lindgren

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed. — Jeff Zentner

No one likes a soused vampire! — Katie MacAlister

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. — Wendell Berry

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes. — Theodore Roosevelt

(...) but she soused herself again in the deep satisfactory possession, feeling that what with this and the moon (music that was, the moon), she could afford to leave this man and that pride of his (...) buried. — Virginia Woolf

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. — Michael Crichton