Sinking

Famous quotes containing the word sinking:

“Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
Into the very water that she lights;”
—Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)

“I consider that that “that” that worries us so much should be forgotten. Rats desert a sinking ship. Thats infest a sinking magazine.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)