Famous quotes containing the words big, blue and/or deck:
“Haint we got all the fools in town on our side? and aint that a big enough majority in any town?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“She liked the blue drapes. They made a star
At the angle. A boy in leather moved in.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)