Ship Quotes

• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Politics
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Ship

• Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Generation
  • New World
  • Sixties

• The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come.

  

  Rumi
  • Union
  • Encounter
  • Wrecked

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • World
  • Important
  • Better

• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Space
  • Like
  • Leak

• You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Ship
  • Currents
  • Winds

• I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Guy
  • Ship

• You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Ship
  • Tide
  • Bay

• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Afraid
  • My Mother
  • Premonition

• It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

  

  Little Richard
  • Waves
  • Size
  • Ship

• A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let’s say it is!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • House
  • Thing
  • Carriage

• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Ship
  • Come In
  • Swim Out

• I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Ship
  • Flags

• We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Color
  • Stage
  • Ship

• Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Ship
  • Commandments
  • Thirst

• There is no ship now that can bear me hence.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Ship
  • Hence

• You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Desert
  • Fools
  • Sail

• I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Board
  • Happiest

• The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Family
  • Ship
  • Passengers

• This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • Fight
  • Ship

• They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. I almost left them alone on a sinking ship. But they got it right in time and it took another 10 minutes but they finally got it right and got going. That's what a layoff will do sometimes.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Alone

• A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Safe
  • Built
  • Shore

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