Barnacles Quotes

• 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

  Evil, Progress, Ships

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  Richard Owen

  Attention, Structure, Naturalist

  "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.

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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

  Heart, World, Purity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 393, 1895.

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  I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Party, Thinking, America

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.282, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

  Fred Allen

  President, Ships, Vices

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• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Book, Effort, Literature

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• 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

  Confused, Eye, Simple

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• I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Golden Retrievers, Crosses, Form

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• Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

  Patrick Star

  Cheer, Once Upon A Time, Stories

  "Fictional character: Patrick Star". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Something Smells/Bossy Boots", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1999–.

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• I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

  Charles Darwin

  Hate, Men, Sailing

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.478, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Brother, Pride, People

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• 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

  Giving, Hull, Steel

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• I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Doe, Voyages

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press

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• Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Change, Ships, Destruction

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• Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

  John Green

  Ships, Consciousness, Containers

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.689, Penguin

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• 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

  Art, Hard Work, Ideas

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• In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  A. S. Byatt

  Weed, Eye, Fire

  "Reading while you're wonder-wounded" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

  Rocks, Blue, Sea

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• 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

  Long, Hatred, Ruins

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan

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• I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

  Vance Gilbert

  People, Shipping, Bigs

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• 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

  Christian, Church, Way

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Farewell, Squares, Eyelashes

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Fashion, Ships, Sides

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• 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

  Kissing, Giving, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.895, Penguin

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• 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

  Average, Growth, President

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