Dry Dock

Famous quotes containing the words dry dock, dry and/or dock:

“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled.
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty,
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I’m mooring my rowboat
at the dock of the island called God.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)