Ship Quotes - page 2

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. View quote
Thomas Reid
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. View quote
Yehuda Berg
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. View quote
Mike Pence
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time. View quote
Robert Kirkman
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. View quote
Gregory Harrison
It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. (Richard V. Allen)
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. View quote
Charles Darwin
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. View quote
Daniel Handler
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. View quote
William Falconer
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. View quote
William Falconer
Serialism is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.... View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I think I should be in a [Disney animated] film called ‘Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical [...] the ship will be built out of my own hair. View quote
Noel Fielding
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. (Thomas Carlyle)
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for. View quote
John Augustus Shedd
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder. View quote
Alan Shepard
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy. View quote
William Carlos Williams
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. View quote
Epictetus