Floating Dry Dock

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

    “The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
    —William Blackstone (1723–1780)

    “In ten thousand years the Sierras
    Will be dry and dead, home of the scorpion.”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “You turn
    To speak to someone beside the dock and the lighthouse
    Shines like garnets. It has become a stricture.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)