Ships Quotes · Page 12

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

— Neil Patrick Harris

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.”

— Roselle Mercier Montgomery

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

— Anonymous

Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

— David Ogilvy

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

— Herman Melville

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

— David Dixon Porter

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

— Albert Einstein

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

— James H. Boren

My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in…

— Dana Gould

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more…

— Plutarch

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship,…

— Charles Dickens

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

— Terry Pratchett

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people…

— Lea Michele

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

— Simon Cowell

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly…

— Charles Dickens

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty;…

— Anthony Trollope

They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are…

— Patrick O'Brian

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach…

— Rick Riordan

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the…

— Stewart Udall

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For…

— Khalil Gibran

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends…

— Gram Parsons

You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon,…

— Guy Kawasaki

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing…

— Robin Williams

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You…

— John C. Maxwell

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and…

— Homer

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings…

— E. Stanley Jones

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship,…

— Richard Bach

On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint…

— Shirley Temple

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

— Dave Allen

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

— Scott Spencer

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

— Arleigh Burke

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

— Paul Watson

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

— Zora Neale Hurston

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

— Judy Holliday

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

— Robin Lee Graham