Cruise Ships Quotes:

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

- Tony Hsieh

topic: Ships, Cruise, Bigger, Cruise Ships, Amenities

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Military, Dawn, Ships, Military Operations, Cruise Ships

Maybe I can put it another way... Life, Charlie Brown, is like a deck chair." "Like a what?" "Have you ever been on a cruise ship? Passengers open up these canvas deck chairs so they can sit in the sun... Some people place their chairs facing the rear of the ship so they can see where they've been... Other people face their chairs forward... They want to see where they're going! On the cruise ship of life, Charlie Brown, which way is your deck chair facing?" "I've never been able to get one unfolded.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: People, Want, Able, Cruise Ships

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

- Mary Roach

source: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers". Book by Mary Roach, 2003.

topic: Lying, Brain, Flesh, Cruise Ships, Cadavers

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

- Helen Van Slyke

source: Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

topic: Travel, White, Long, Cruise Ships

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

- Francis Drake

topic: Sea, Boat, Distasteful, Mariners, Maritime

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: Land, Boat, Nautical, Land And Sea, Sailboat

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

- Robin Lee Graham

topic: Sea, Littles, Needs, Mariners, Maritime

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Funny, Travel, Lazy People, Cruise Ships

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

- Grace Hopper

source: 1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Maritime, Nautical

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Sea, Boat, Enticing, Mariners, Ocean Sea

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Lying, Moving, Nautical, Sailboat

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

- Kenneth Grahame

source: TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

topic: Witty, Sailing, Half, Mariners, Wind In The Willows

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Way, Ships, Cruise, Railway, Cruise Ships

I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

- David Bowie

topic: Looks, Spices, Ships, Posh, Cruise Ships

Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

- Joe Quirk

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Moving, Technology, Self, Cruise Ships, High Seas

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

- Barack Obama

source: "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.

topic: Running, Years, White, Apartheid, Residents

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

- Errol Flynn

topic: Brother, Lying, Sea, Mariners, Sailboat

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

- Vivienne Westwood

source: Vivienne Westwood (2016). “Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood”, p.60, Serpent's Tail

topic: Sea, People, Suffering, Tuscany, Cruise Ships

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

- Charles Davis

topic: Beach, Sight, Land, Mariners, Land And Sea

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

- Jared Padalecki

topic: And Love, Down And, Ships, Cruise Ships

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sailboat, Change Growth

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

- John Cheever

topic: Beautiful, Children, Men, Lingering, Cruise Ships

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

- Gavin MacLeod

topic: Princess, Two, Islands, Identical, Cruise Ships

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Church, Ships, Cruise, Cruise Ships, Lifeboats

Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed?

- Francesca Lia Block

topic: Dream, Baby, Beach, Raphael, Cruise Ships

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

topic: Cruise Ships

Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by bit, in a golden sarcophagus, biding his time until he had enough power to challenge the Olympian gods. In demigod-speak, we call this a “problem.” - Percy, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth

- Rick Riordan

topic: Challenges, Sailing, Labyrinth, Olympian Gods, Demigods

I was actually on two reality shows, which is crazy. Just to think that, out there, there was some guy, like flipping through the channels, being like, 'Hey, I 69'd her on a cruise ship.

- Amy Schumer

topic: Crazy, Reality, Thinking, Reality Shows, Cruise Ships

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Song, Singing, Ships, Cruise Ships

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

- Jeremiah Wright

topic: Running, White, Greed, Cruise Ships

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, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

- Tom Hanks

source: "Tom Hanks Talks Captain Phillips, Meeting the Real Title Character, Filming on a Lifeboat, Shooting the Movie’s Final Scene and Working with the U.S. Navy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2013.

topic: Pride, Sea, People, Very Impressive, Cruise Ships

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Guy, Karaoke, Ships, Cruise Ships

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered.

- Misha Collins

topic: Kayaking, Rivers, Long, Sailboat, Cruise Ships

And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

- Isaac Marion

topic: Moon, Space, Islands, Unheard, Cruise Ships

My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.

- Rob Schwimmer

topic: Music, Names, Band, Cruise Ships

I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.

- Phil Keoghan

source: "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 5, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Writing, Thinking, Most Wanted, Cruise Ships

I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

- Yakov Smirnoff

source: Source: www.washingtontimes.com

topic: Russia, Laughing, Comedian, Cruise Ships

I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

- Max Barry

source: "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

topic: Book, Thinking, Guy, Margarita, Pacific