35 Barnacles Quotes
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- God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J. G. Holland
- Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn Heilbrun
- I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. — Charles Darwin
- I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. — John Green
- Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn G. Heilbrun
- I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. — Vance Gilbert
- Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship? — H. P. Blavatsky
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. — Tallulah Bankhead
Lectins are like little barnacles that look for specific sugar molecules in our blood, the lining of our gut, and on our nerves. When they find a good spot to land, they cling to those cells, breaking down their ability to communicate with our immune systems. — Steven Gundry
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. — William Banting
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End. — Patrick Star
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. — Fred Allen
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it. — Michael Leunig
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins. — Janet Fitch
Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing. — Deb Caletti
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. — Augusten Burroughs
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish. — Thomas Merton
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel. — Nick Flynn
In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. — William Carlos Williams
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. — Fred Allen
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our needs openly before our brothers and sisters. The fear and pride that clings to us like barnacles cling to others also. In acts of mutual confession we release the power that heals. Our humanity is no longer denied, but transformed. — Richard J. Foster
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy. — Madeline Miller
Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like. — Gail Carriger
Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch with me still attached to him—like a large barnacle — Charlaine Harris
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