V Boat/v-8 and V-9%E2%80%94cachalot and Cuttlefish

Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or cuttlefish:

    “Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo
    The lighthouse, and the boat on the beach, and the two shapes
    Of the woman and the man;”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)