Ships Quotes · Page 3

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from…

— Diogenes Laertius

I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they…

— Yakov Smirnoff

When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you…

— Harrison Ford

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War…

— Will Ferrell

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

— Roselle Mercier Montgomery

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

— Terry Pratchett

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd…

— Sterling Hayden

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons…

— David Fairchild

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to…

— Rudyard Kipling

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

— Larry Osborne

Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on…

— Alison Croggon

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

— Jonathan Winters

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we…

— Barack Obama

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

— John Ruskin

I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself…

— Rick Riordan

Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can…

— Richard Whately

I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail,…

— Madeleine Albright

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships.…

— Bob Hawke

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of…

— Jeanette Winterson

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to…

— Thomas Pogge

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

— Stephen Spender