“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Sonnet
Urban Hymns (1997)
“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Greg Egan (1961) Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
Oceanic http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/OCEANIC/Complete/Oceanic.html, ch. 1 <br class="br">Fiction, Oceanic and Other Stories (2000)
“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Standup Comic (1999)
“For me today, Hull City beat Hull City.”
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
1-Sep-2008, Guardian website
It was a bit of a one-sided game as Hull lose at home 0-5 to Wigan.
“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”
Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author
"Alas! Deceived", p. 367 (1993).
Writing Home (1994)
“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,<br>L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin. <br class="br">St. 5 <br class="br"> Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
Arthur M. Jolly (1969) American writer
Ishmael
Moby (No Last Name Given) (2014)