Winner Tall Ships

Famous quotes containing the words winner, tall and/or ships:

“The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, “Wolf, wolf,” and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born—the tall story had been born in the tall grass.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)