Overboard Quotes

63 Overboard quotes by 59 unique authors

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A… — Steve Fossett
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height… — Jules Verne
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. — Martial
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and… — Jimmy Breslin
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and… — James A. Garfield
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen. — Freddie Mercury
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from… — Ronald Reagan
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the… — Carlos Santana
I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. — Yann Martel
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air.… — Yann Martel
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle — Saul Williams
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth,… — Henry Cloud
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A… — Napoleon Hill
You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and… — Herman Melville
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. — Sarah Dessen
Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls… — Max Allan Collins
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals… — Francis Chan
Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard. — Brandon Mull

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