V Boat/v-8 and V-9%e2%80%94cachalot and Cuttlefish

Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or cuttlefish:

    “Every time I get happy
    the Nana-hex comes through.
    Birds turn into plumber’s tools,
    a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
    a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
    a boat turns into a corpse....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)