Amphibious Flying Boat

Famous quotes containing the words amphibious, flying and/or boat:

    We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    The water which supports a boat can also sink it.
    Chinese proverb.