24 quotes found
“Murder was a fascination as always.”
“New York's perennial attraction was shopping.”
“They looked more like day laborers than seamen.”
“He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.”
“My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.”
“It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.”
“Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambi...”
“You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the prayer on your lips for it all to come back to you. It seems cruel, cruel, to give us such a vis...”
“The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. ”
“I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itsel...”
“No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.”
“Wasplike with their long slender hulls, these were ships not seen in these waters before. They approached in a line, each flying a large American flag. To the hundreds of onlookers by now gathered ...”
“American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was...”
“There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.”
“But one thing was quite clear he wrote. [B]eing broke didnt disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much be...”
“I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.”
“During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.”
“If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.”
“My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.”
“One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.”
