Famous quotes containing the words strange and/or ship:
“Broken by great waves,
the wavelets flung it here,
this sea-gliding creature,
this strange creature like a weed....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn’t prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C)