Boat famous quotes
03-25-2025
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The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.
-- Nick Hanauer -
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.
-- Odysseas Elytis -
I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
-- Olga Kurylenko -
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
-- Phil Donahue -
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
-- Rebecca Wells -
The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’
-- Rich Wilkerson Jr. -
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
-- Sam Ewing -
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
-- Sam Neill -
If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.
-- Sebastian Vettel -
We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.
-- Sibel Edmonds -
We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.
-- Slavoj Žižek -
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.
-- Sterling Hayden -
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
-- Ted Lindsay -
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
-- Theodore Roethke -
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.
-- Tristan Jones -
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.
-- Vito Dumas -
The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
-- Vladimir Mayakovsky -
I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
-- Will Ferrell -
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
-- Will Rogers -
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
-- William Christopher Handy -
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
-- William Ellery Channing -
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
-- William Shakespeare -
The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.
-- Wilma Scott Heide -
Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.
-- Zig Ziglar -
Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.
-- Alonzo Bodden -
Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.
-- Anant Agarwal -
The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.
-- Avi Lewis -
I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.
-- Chantal Joffe -
The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.
-- Chrissy Costanza -
I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.
-- James D'arcy -
I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
-- Joseph O'Neill -
If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do it. It's unfinished, it has no start-stop time, it's fluid. Practicality relies on indeterminate markers. It's just another kind of knowledge that's sexy, in a certain way. It's reactive, and often physical.
-- Keller Easterling -
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
-- Laura Dekker -
I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
-- Laura Dekker -
Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.
-- Nick Willing -
Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.
-- Paul Lutus -
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
-- Pierre L. van den Berghe -
Either get on the boat or get off the boat.
-- Bonnie Canino -
If you ever see me at a boat show or at a car show, blow my head off.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait -
The Israel Palestine thing, there are infinite sides to each side, but if we stick to the main sides, everybody's in the same boat and it's maddening to me for people not to understand what's in both their best interest.
-- Nathan Englander -
If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.
-- Caroline Manzo -
The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’
-- Rich Wilkerson Jr. -
Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.
-- Diane Wilson -
There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.
-- Ellen MacArthur -
One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.
-- Jay Rayner -
From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.
-- Kevin Johnson
