Cabin Altitude Warning

Famous quotes containing the words cabin, altitude and/or warning:

    “I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “Tonight I will speak up and interrupt
    your letters, warning you that wars are coming,
    that the Count will die, that you will accept
    your America back to live like a prim thing
    on the farm in Maine.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)