Boat quotes
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A boat can't have two captains.
-- Akira Mori -
For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
-- Aldous Huxley -
In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.
-- Alec Baldwin -
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BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
-- Alex Blackwell -
The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.
-- Alice Clayton -
I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.
-- Allen Stanford -
Whatever floats your boat...or finds your lost remote...
-- Andre Benjamin -
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
-- Anne Fausto-Sterling -
We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.
-- Antonis Samaras -
I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
-- Antony Hewish -
The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.
-- Arthur Waley -
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Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
-- Barbara Carrera -
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
-- Ben Kingsley -
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
-- Bill Cosby -
There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.
-- Brandy Norwood -
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Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
-- Casey Affleck -
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It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
-- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden -
We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.
-- Christie Watson -
Only those who row the boat make waves
-- Christina Dodd -
Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?
-- CM Punk -
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You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Time is a river, and books are boats.
-- Dan Brown -
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
-- David A. Siegel -
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
-- Denis Johnson -
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It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
-- Don Van Vliet -
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy Height -
We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
-- Dorothy Height -
It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.
-- Dusty Baker -
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I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
-- E. B. White -
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard -
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I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.
-- Elmore Leonard -
When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.
-- Eric Ludy -
I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
-- Ernest K. Gann -
Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
-- Felicity Kendal -
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To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
-- Francis Chichester -
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
-- Francis Drake -
The sea finds out everything you did wrong.
-- Francis Stokes -
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
-- Francois Truffaut -
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For all of us, we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's in our boat. And when those storms come and those waves (of life) come, He's in the boat with us.
-- Franklin Graham -
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.
-- Goran Ivanisevic -
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.
-- Gordon Korman -
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When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
-- Guy Lafleur -
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.
-- Hammond Innes -
Your side of the boat is sinking!
-- Hank Smith -
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
-- Harold Prince -
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
-- Henry Fielding -
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
-- Herb Kelleher -
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Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
-- Howie Carr -
To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.
-- Hugh Downs -
My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
-- Ian Hart -
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
-- Jack Hanna -
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I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
-- James Hetfield -
No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.
-- James St. James -
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.
-- James Taranto -
I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.
-- Jason Sudeikis -
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
-- Jeff Goldblum -
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.
-- Jill Abramson -
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Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.
-- Joanna Baillie -
I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.
-- Joe Flanigan -
Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.
-- John Boyne -
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.
-- John Breaux -
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It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
-- John F. Kennedy -
The rising tide lifts all the boats.
-- John F. Kennedy -
I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.
-- John Marin -
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
-- John Masefield -
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The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
-- John Rousmaniere -
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
-- Joseph Conrad -
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
-- Joshua Slocum -
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.
-- Joshua Slocum -
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I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
-- Joshua Slocum -
A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
-- JR -
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
-- Julius Caesar -
I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.
-- Kanye West -
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I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.
-- Karl Donitz -
We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?
-- Karl Pilkington -
If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
-- Kenneth Kaye -
I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat
-- Kiersten White -
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I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
Jump or stay in the boat.
-- Margaret Stohl -
You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.
-- Mark Shields -
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
-- Mark Shields -
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We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
-- Martin Ryle -
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.
-- Meg Cabot -
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
-- Michel Serres -
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
-- Nadia Giosia -
The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.
-- Nash Buckingham -
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
-- Neal Asher -
