Tropical Storm Force

Famous quotes containing the words tropical, storm and/or force:

    Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
    That frequently happens in tropical climes
    When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    The storm is over, the land hushes to rest:
    The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone,
    Is fallen back in the west
    Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

    A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)