(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made…

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds…

— Louis Zamperini

When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

— Louis Zamperini

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

— Alan Watts

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

— Mark Twain

“As the boys steadily and monotonously drove the raft toward mid-stream it was no doubt understood that these orders were given only for "style,"…

— Mark Twain

“Seven men inhabit the raft. The pessimist, for whom the good things of life are no more than lures to prolong suffering; the egocentric,…

— John Fowles

If someone throws a life raft out there, you have to actually swim to it. You can't say bring it to me.

— Billy Donovan

When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“The world outside was a rolling sea and he was on a raft without a paddle. There was nothing to anchor him and no…

— G.P. Ching

“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.”

— Richard Adams

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

— Russell B. Long

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon…

— Anonymous

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I…

— Robert Mankoff