1983 Quote by Jonathan Schell

Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings.…

— Chris Shays

The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself…

— Hal Clement

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then,…

— Tom Hanks

It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy…

— Philippe Petit

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks,…

— John Calvin

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

— Ovid

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have…

— Jean Kerr

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

— Jon Stewart

“Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to…

— Neal Stephenson

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

“My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach “normal” has brought me to ponder whether “normal” even exists, or if it is nothing…

— Dan Pearce

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

— Edvard Munch