Mast Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about Mast

Mast Quotes & Sayings

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The gooseneck," Badim adds, with a quick smile at Freya. "It connects the boom to the mast, but it isn't very robust. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum — Mervyn Peake

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow. — Astrid Lindgren

*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin. — Herman Melville

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast! — Walter Scott

How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast. — Herman Melville

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. — Karl Shapiro

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast. — Andy Townsend

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. — Abby Sunderland

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure. — Ernest Hemingway,

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. — Henry Miller

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves. — Stacy Buck

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

He smirked, his lids lowering to half-mast. Twinkling, hot-lava, sexy cake, sex-on-a-stick, obscene levels of charisma. — Penny Reid

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head. — John Byng

You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene. — L.J. Shen

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast
It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye. — Kahlil Gibran

I had a dream I named my boat after you. I love to raise your mast. — Amanda Mosher

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket. — Leonardo Donofrio

Time flaps on the mast-- — Virginia Woolf

And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast. — George R R Martin

If I ever found where he'd stashed my spiked heels, I was going to nail his black heart to the mast of his fucking boat. — Leylah Attar

Its single mast reached high towards the stars and its slender form creaked with every lapping wave. — Jack Croxall

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. — William Shakespeare

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast. — Judy Garland

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast. — Chris Fabry

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. — Kahlil Gibran

Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know. — Patricia Briggs

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender — Ron Pickering

Sexual intercourse ... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin