Boat Quotes · Page 18

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

— William Gilbert

I've had grateful messages from people thanking me for being open about health on social media: from others with epilepsy who feel…

— Dawn Foster

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

— Lisa Kleypas

There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular…

— Adam Scott

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning…

— Radhanath Swami

I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact,…

— Stefanie Schneider

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at…

— Sarah Kay

Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and…

— Gretel Ehrlich

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be…

— Fred Allen

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

— Anthony Doerr

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but…

— Diane Wilson

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

— Neal Asher

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

— Lisa Lampanelli

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

— Charlie Chaplin

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile…

— Neal Stephenson

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

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains,…

— John Cheever

Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all…

— David Letterman

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood…

— John Steinbeck

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

— John Breaux

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the…

— George Yeoman Pocock

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it…

— Ellen MacArthur

Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.

— Alonzo Bodden

Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe…

— David Hewlett