Sukekiyo Aftermath 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

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which — Jules Verne

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control over the situation. And I wasn't sure I would have any in real life. — Robert Crais

If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved. — Robert A. Heinlein

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories. — Francois Mauriac

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly. — Lorine Niedecker

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell. — Richard Simmons

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer. — Brigitte Bardot

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles. — Ernest Renan

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that! — Dan Povenmire

Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh. — Ian Fleming