Boat Quotes · Page 50

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I can tell by the way you're searching For something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

— Li Qingzhao

It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The…

— Alan Tudyk

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

— Ann Landers

I think Mighty Moe really got me into a whole different style of MCing. There were a lot of people with simple…

— Kano

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

— Katie Couric

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense…

— James Taranto

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

— Thomas Fleming Day

The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If…

— Mark Pincus

My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,…

— Harry Belafonte

We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.

— Karl Pilkington

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

— James D'arcy

Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In…

— Alice Sebold

I'm very lucky that I got to spend my summers at my grandmother's house on Martha's Vineyard. My brother really loved fishing,…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me.…

— Michael Ondaatje

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a…

— Justin Cronin

The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political…

— Opal Tometi

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 wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that…

— Rafael Palmeiro

Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or…

— Paul Virilio

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

— George Clarke

One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

— Margaret Cho