Famous quotes containing the words tropical and/or status:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)