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  • Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. -- John Green
  • No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. -- Richard Owen
  • 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
  • Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship? -- H. P. Blavatsky
  • Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
  • I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. -- Vance Gilbert
  • I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. -- Charles Darwin
  • God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. -- J. G. Holland
  • I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. -- Tallulah Bankhead
  • On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. -- Fred Allen
  • I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end. -- Patrick Star
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. -- Michael Leunig
  • The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me. -- Stephen Hunter
  • Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. -- William Collins
  • Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it. -- John Darnielle
  • Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it. -- Geoff Johns
  • Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!" -- HergĂ©
  • Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It's sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles. -- Nicholas Day
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