Lawrence Beesley famous quotes

When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.
-- Lawrence Beesley

#United States #Way #Ships

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.
-- Lawrence Beesley

#Ocean #Eye #Night

Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty cost and all those men and women whom the world can so ill afford to loose would be with us today. There would be no mourning in thousands of homes which now are desolate and these words need not have been written.
-- Lawrence Beesley

#Home #Thinking #Men

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.