They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Murder was a fascination as always.

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

We have to be back in three hours, " Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This, " Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.

Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.