Undergirding The Ship Quotes & Sayings

He perceived that this memory-jumbled rag-bag of material was in fact the very heart of her, her self-portrait, the way she looked in the mirror when nobody else was in the room ... — Salman Rushdie

The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never. — Lin Yutang

Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape. — Sophie Hannah

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. — Simon Mainwaring

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. — Mark Rothko

Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind. — David Hewson

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent. — Alex Berenson

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly. — Lee Smolin

Knaves need to be dealt with as quickly as possible. But as long as their contributions match their outlandish egos, divas should be tolerated and even protected. — Eric Schmidt

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny. — Chelsea Handler

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. — Samuel Butler