Triremes Ships Quotes & Sayings

Why do I feel the sudden urge to perform violence on your face? — Sara Wolf

She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her. — Denis Johnson

To give yourself away keep yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill. — William Shakespeare

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; — Kahlil Gibran

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. — Sally Field

Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style. — Roberto Duran

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. — Meir Soloveichik

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it. — Martha Stewart

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me. — Lian Hearn

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows. — Stephen King

I couldn't help wondering where porpoises had learned this game of running on the bows of ships. Porpoises have been swimming in the oceans for seven to ten million years, but they've had human ships to play with for only the last few thousand. Yet nearly all porpoises, in every ocean, catch rides for fun from passing ships; and they were doing it on the bows of Greek triremes and prehistoric Tahitian canoes, as soon as those seacraft appeared. What did they do for fun before ships were invented?
Ken Norris made a field observation one day that suggests the answer. He saw a humpback whale hurrying along the coast of the island of Hawaii, unavoidably making a wave in front of itself; playing in that bow wave was a flock of bottlenose porpoises. The whale didn't seem to be enjoying it much: Ken said it looked like a horse being bothered by flies around its head; however, there was nothing much the whale could do about it, and the porpoises were having a fun time. — Karen Pryor