Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous,… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen — Jack London Copy Share Image
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance,… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Speaking of failure, when we do our question and answer period, you look at what's happened with our Navy in terms of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“The QSMV Dominion Monarch was launched in 1938 to be a luxury passenger liner. Designed with refrigerated cargo holds, she was built… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know… — Jamie Farr Copy Share Image
For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are cases when one may sometimes burn one's ships and not go home again. Life does not consist only of lunches… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like… — Aileen Wuornos Copy Share Image
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships. — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
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