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"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."
"Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting.'I fought a smile. 'A trained assassin who babysits.''Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet."
"I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness."
"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it."
"His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg."
"You have terminated me, one of them said in a strange, flat voice. "But Iam one of many."Robots! Iggy breathed, taking Total from Angel."One of many, one of many, one of many, the robot Eraser was saying. NowNudge saw the red light in its eyes, saw how they were fading and winking out."Good! spat the Gasman, kicking it hard. "Because we like to blow stuff up,blow stuff up, blow stuff up!"
"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into."
Explore more quotes by John Masefield
"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"
"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."
"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."
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