#vessel

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#changing #chronically #devoted #energy #find

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#beck #believe #certain #certain extent #coming

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. ↗

— William Falconer

#burst #contrary #extensive #frequently #implies

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#body #certain #certainly #did #directed

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#gospel #gospel artists #message #messengers #vessels

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#heartbeat #like #millions #people #pulsating

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. ↗

— Abraham Whipple

#artillery #either #farthing #i #money

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. ↗

— Xenophon

#barley #beer #drank #drink #held