Time Quote by James Alan Gardner

“Ships have feelings.”

— Ann Leckie

“A female ship should slowly go to dock when she sees a male harbour, for this is the most natural thing to do!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me…

— Mary Roach

“My ship had lost crew mates before, yet I sailed on.”

— L.M. Bryski

“Ship, lady. This here’s a ship,” he said defensively, as if she’d told him, “Your penis: I find it minuscule.”

— Kresley Cole

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“and everything generally made shipshape, which seemed a desirable state of affairs, given that we were in fact aboard a ship.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr

“Women command ships in the Navy. Women serve on submarines. There’s women on my team, and I trust them with my life. As for…

— Zoe Chant

“I am most grateful for company this evening, even of the quiet variety. I am no great conversationalist, myself.” Gray snorted. Not a conversationalist.…

— Tessa Dare

“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any…

— GarciLaso De la Vega

“When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.”

— Swedish Proverb