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 »
The menu was stewed liver and rice, fricassee of bones, and shredded dog biscuit. The dinner was greatly appreciated; the guests a...te until they could eat no more, and Elisha Dyer's dachshund so overtaxed its capacities that it fell unconscious by its plate and had to be carried home.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 »