Boat Quotes · Page 10

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

— Robert Lowell

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

— Felicity Kendal

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

— Chantal Joffe

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

— Joe Flanigan

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

— Joseph Conrad

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap…

— Ed Zern

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don't want to be…

— Lynda Carter

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a…

— James M. Buchanan

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

— Bill Johnson

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men… Not only are we all in the same boat,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When programming was my hobby, I thought that programming would be the perfect job. Now I program for a living and build…

— Ron Porter

“A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that…

— Robert Walser

[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all…

— Daniel Topolski

Now when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it…

— Wangari Maathai

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…

— Harlan Coben

Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

DMX wasn't checking what his fans were saying to him on Twitter or Facebook. Jay-Z is on a boat in Saint-Tropez. I'm…

— Theophilus London

I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump…

— Lisa Lampanelli

All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of…

— Joe Abercrombie

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a…

— Jules Verne

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie…

— Osip Mandelstam

I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved…

— Wendell Berry

When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a…

— Will Rogers

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish.…

— Joaquin Phoenix

How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready…

— Mary Oliver

Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong…

— Shel Silverstein

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

— Irwin Thomas

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

— Bible

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

— John McPhee

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.

— Charles Bower

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

— Edvard Munch