Thomas Gibbons quotes

“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.”
-- Thomas Gibbons

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“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.”
-- Thomas Gibbons

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“There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.”

“BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand”

“I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.”

“Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.”

“So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee”

“Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.”

“The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.”

“I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.”

“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

“The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster