Famous quotes containing the words deck and/or height:
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life’s abundance.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)