{"quotes":[{"text":"There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.","author":"Alastair Reynolds","tags":["achievement","existential","human","ships","space"],"id":24771,"author_id":"Alastair+Reynolds"},{"text":"The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross.","author":"Jocelyn Murray","tags":["diplomacy","enemies-and-friends","hostility","sea","ships","tact"],"id":28983,"author_id":"Jocelyn+Murray"},{"text":"Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.","author":"Lord Dunsany","tags":["dreams","mythology","ships"],"id":57035,"author_id":"Lord+Dunsany"},{"text":"The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.","author":"David Fairchild","tags":["alice","alice-in-wonderland","carroll","lewis-carroll","looking-glass","microscope","mind","recognition","science","ships","thrilling"],"id":58337,"author_id":"David+Fairchild"},{"text":"Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-position","bus","car","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-position","ocean","oceans","personal-development","position","positions","right","roads","sea","ship","ships","transportation","wrong-position"],"id":76022,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Ships are but boards  sailors but men.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["ships"],"id":77842,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Ships that pass in the night.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["ships"],"id":80744,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive – assuming he still had that. Insurance was a good thing – a very good thing - but it wasn’t going to help him much out here. The highlight of his afternoon was going to be staring at the blinking bridge instrumentation – which just happened to be running on the emergency batteries and actually blinking, like for real. Moreover, since his mutinous crew had made off with the Short Shit, the ships only shuttle, he was facing quite a problem.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","about","afternoon","alone","blinking","conversion-drive","crew","emergency","good-thing","had","help","here","him","his","instrumentation","just","like","moreover","mutinous","now","on","problem","real","ships","shit","shuttle","starship","that","the","thing","very","which"],"id":114725,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent.","author":"Josh Stern","tags":["absurd","deer","headlights","hobby","humor","ships","talent","thing","witty"],"id":121935,"author_id":"Josh+Stern"},{"text":"They that go down to the sea in ships  that do business in great waters.","author":"Bible","tags":["ships"],"id":127450,"author_id":"Bible"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}