Ships Quotes · Page 28

I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And…

— Noel Fielding

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child…

— Anonymous

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

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of…

— Virginia Woolf

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

— Richard Hakluyt

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the…

— David Travis

I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and…

— Dan Aykroyd

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

— Alexander Woollcott

I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.

— Phyllis Diller

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I…

— Peter Schiff

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

— William Bradford

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit…

— Owen Feltham

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But…

— Martin Luther

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

— Robert Bork

Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to…

— Herman Melville

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and…

— Clare Short

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just…

— Garrison Keillor

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is…

— John F. Kennedy

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe…

— John Green

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

— Neil Young

My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be…

— Werner Herzog