Boat Quotes · Page 17

“You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.”

— Hsu Hsuan

When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford.

— Theo Paphitis

; Don't burn your bridges, if you don't have a boat!

— Anonymous

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

— Don Van Vliet

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

My grandad was a prawn fisherman who built his own boat.

— George Clarke

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

— Robert Burns

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

— Anonymous

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

— John Gierach

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

— Carlos Fuentes

I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to…

— Sylvia Earle

I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we…

— Aaron Spelling

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

— Guy Clark

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One…

— Joe Brooks

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

— Phil Donahue

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

— Joseph Campbell

“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

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

— Ron Porter

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

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his…

— Daniel Quinn

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their…

— Leonard Cohen

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella…

— Michael Schenker

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the…

— Candace Bushnell

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is…

— Joseph Monninger

I feel like I've found my voice in the actor's business. Because when you first get out of school and you're looking…

— Anna Camp

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is…

— Jimmy Buffett

When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in…

— Ed Engle

Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this…

— Sylvester Stallone

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…

— Lillian Hellman

These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps:…

— Jessica Maxwell

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.

— Craig Groeschel

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

— Robert Jordan

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

— William Ellery Channing

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

— Yann Martel

Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.

— Paul Lutus

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

— George Orwell

Don't burn the bridge between us and then expect me to send you a boat

— Anonymous