McCoy: That shark's been following us ever since the surgeon died, waiting for the burial. Couldn't I have a musket to shoot it, s...ir? Fletcher Christian: Take the deck, McCoy. I'll get the keys to the arms chest. McCoy: Get two muskets, sir. I'd like to shoot that shark on board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our h...ands is a dead shark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady of Ryde Who was carried far out by the tide.... Cried a man-eating shark, "How's this for a lark? I knew that the Lord would provide."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear-- And he shows them pearly white--... Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear-- And he keeps it out of sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can s...ee the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. An...yway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But seldom the laurel wreath is seen Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;... There's a light and a shadow on every man Who at last attains his lifted mark-- Nursing through night the ethereal spark. Elate he never can be; He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth, Sleep in oblivion.--The shark Glides white through the phosphorus sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »