Ships famous quotes

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
-- Aaron Swartz

#Dark #Greed #Ships

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
-- Alain de Botton

#Moving #Journey #Ships

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
-- Alan Green

#Soccer #Games #Ships

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
-- Alan Shepard

#Ships #Facts #Lows

Every ship should have a cat.
-- Alan Villiers

#Cat #Ships #Should

The wake doesn't drive the ship
-- Alan Watts

#Ships

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Doe #Voyages #Ships

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
-- Alexander Woollcott

#Sarcastic #Ships #Sinking

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
-- Amiri Baraka

#Ships #Citizenship #Slave

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
-- Andre Maurois

#Two #Ships #Wave

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
-- Andy Partridge

#Singing #Doorways #Ships

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

#Way #Ships #Cruise

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Stories #Ships #My Favorite

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
-- Anzia Yezierska

#America #Woe #Ships

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Fighting #Navy #Ships

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.
-- Avery Johnson

#Gun #Covenant #Ships

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
-- Barney Ross

#Morning #Three #Ships

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Wisdom #Equality #Ships

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
-- Beverly Cleary

#School #Years #Ships

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
-- Bill Watterson

#Ems #Rockets #Ships

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
-- Billy Campbell

#Children #Squares #Ships

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.
-- Bob Burg

#Generosity #Giving #Ships

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
-- Bob Dylan

#Heart #Looks #Ships

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.
-- Brendan

#Cat #Ships #Eating

As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers...
-- Candice Accola

#Passion #Community #Ships

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
-- Cary Grant

#Color #Titles #Ships

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Ships #Action

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
-- Charles Frohman

#Littles #Ships #Wonderful

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
-- Charles Simic

#Bottles #Ships #Lighthouse

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Wind #Useless #Ships

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
-- Cheryl Strayed

#Beautiful #Important #Ships

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Towers #Ships #Faces

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Doubt #Safe #Ships

We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.
-- Collis Potter Huntington

#Loss #Ships #Profit

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Needs #Voyages #Ships

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love Is #Way #Ships

I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.
-- Dan Aykroyd

#Believe #Different #Ships

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story
-- Dan Harmon

#Looks #Stories #Ships

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
-- Daniel Clowes

#Book #Thinking #Ships

You are the captain of your ship that never comes in
-- Daniel Lee

#Captains #Ships

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Red #Ships #Firsts

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.
-- Dave Allen

#Ships #Cargo

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.
-- Dave Barry

#Black #Ships #Peter

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
-- David Dreman

#Ships #Strategy #Abandon

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.
-- David Markson

#Storm #Ships #Language

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.
-- David Sedaris

#Magazines #Want #Ships

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

#Anxiety #Ships #Illness

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Divorce #Two #Ships

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .
-- Edward Smith

#Gone #Ships #Causes

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Love #Would Be #Ships

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!
-- Eleanora Duse

#Sea #Humanity #Ships

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.
-- Elsa Barker

#Sea #Advice #Ships

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Ships #Breathe #Deck

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
-- Epictetus

#Ships #Gains #Firsts

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-- Eric Metaxas

#Trying #Limits #Ships

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
-- Eugene Ionesco

#Doctors #Captains #Ships

My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
-- Eva Hart

#Mother #Flying #Ships

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
-- Faye Wattleton

#Business #Storm #Ships

One's ships come in over a calm sea.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn

#Sea #Ships #Calm

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
-- Fred Allen

#President #Ships #Vices

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.
-- Frederic Reynolds

#Sleep #Ships #Vexation

Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.
-- Gail Carriger

#Fashion #Ships #Sides

It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
-- Gavin MacLeod

#Stars #Cutting #Ships

I'll stick to building ships.
-- George Steinbrenner

#Yankees #Ships #Sticks

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
-- Gil Amelio

#Jobs #Treasure #Ships

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
-- Gil Gerard

#Blue #Ships #Used

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
-- Glen Hansard

#Office #Ships #Another Day

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.
-- Greer Garson

#Waiting #Ships

In calm water every ship has a good captain.
-- Grover Cleveland

#Water #Captains #Ships

Paint the entire ship? Id rather eat my cigar!
-- Hannibal

#Ships #Cigar #Paint

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
-- Henrique Capriles Radonski

#Captains #Ships #Port

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.
-- Henry Abbey

#Sea #Tree #Ships

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Wind #Play #Ships

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Strong #Laughing #Ships

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Life #Self #Ships

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
-- Hesiod

#Ships #Profit #Admire

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
-- Hesiod

#Ships #Caution #Goods

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
-- Horatio Nelson

#War #Fighting #Ships

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.
-- Hulk Hogan

#Running #Opposites #Ships

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
-- Iris Murdoch

#Sea #Ships #Return

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
-- Irwin Redlener

#Years #United States #Ships

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen
-- Jack London

#Needs #Ships #Swearing

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
-- James Callaghan

#Moving #Perspective #Ships

When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.
-- James Cameron

#Crazy #Docks #Ships

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
-- James Elroy Flecker

#Swans #Ships #Sail

It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic". "Didn't you enjoy Titanic?" "I was relieved when the ship went down".
-- Janet Evanovich

#Ships #Would Be #Said

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

#And Love #Down And #Ships

Never build your content ship on rented land.
-- Jay Baer

#Land #Ships

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
-- Jean Anouilh

#House #Poison #Ships

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.
-- Jean Kerr

#Water #Ships #Accomplishing Something

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer

#Hero #Ships #Rise Above

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Storm #Ships #Strange

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.
-- Joel Ross

#Circles #Organization #Ships

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].
-- Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

#Lovely #Quality #Ships

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
-- John Barth

#Ships #Sometimes #Monsoons

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
-- John Bunyan

#Ships #Sin #Leaks

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leader #Ships

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
-- John Henrik Clarke

#People #Hemisphere #Ships

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
-- John Hewson

#War #Troops #Ships

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
-- John Masefield

#Men #Ships #Boat