"the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat"

-- Neal Shusterman

#Ships Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Captains Quotes

“Up! you bag of bones!" "Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! "She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??”
“Justice will prevail!”
“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Source : Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media
“The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.”
“In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.”
“No matter how much you tell yourself your over someone, your heart knows the truth”

Source : Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead
“The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America

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