Eric Hiscock quotes

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.”
-- Eric Hiscock

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“Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that brought to them substantial memories of the girls they had left behind in London or Manchester. As the Quartermaster Captain lisped after performing before a particularly rapt audience: 'I bet there were more standing ***** than snotty noses tonight'. Astonishingly, I suspect he was right. We probably helped to keep the home fires of passion burning.”
-- Eric Hiscock

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“Only fools and passengers drink at sea.”

“I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.”

Source : "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

“You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.”

“Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.”

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.”

“But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.”