A Yacht Quotes

#1. At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Milton Berle

#2. A story has to glide like a yacht, not bump along like a supermarket trolley.

Kevin Ansbro

#3. I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

John Caudwell

#4. I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes.

Brad Thor

#5. You know we always travel in little skinny boats like this why can't travel to the end of the world in a yacht -Puck

Julie Kagawa

#6. I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

Pierre Dukan

#7. I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Anita Loos

#8. After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

Tracy Letts

#9. A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Nicholas Negroponte

#10. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

Cynthia Heimel

#11. As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

Conor Oberst

#12. I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Ferran Adria

#13. You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."

Will Ferrell

#14. There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

Elon Musk

#15. Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

Stephen LaBerge

#17. I never saw you without a golf club tie.
I never saw you with a golf club.
I never saw you without yachting shoes.
I never saw you in a yacht.

Rachel Joyce

#18. Just keep it simple, Alice Faye. Remember how you taught yourself. Nothing's different just because you're on a yacht, or wearing a fancy dress. Or because you appear to have dropped acid and are now in the mirror room at the fun house.

Elle Lothlorien

#19. Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Vanilla Ice

#20. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Coco Chanel

#22. I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Queen Latifah

#23. Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.

Ann Coulter

#24. Mark My Words Jack Frost ... Before I Die I Am Going To Buy A Yacht And Sail Off To A Nice Warm & Sunny Paradise. Freeze And Abuse Someone's Else's Rear End ... You Been Warned.

Timothy Pina

#25. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

J. P. Morgan

#26. A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

Shari Arison

#27. Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

Jimmy Cannon

#28. Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it.

David Lee Roth

#29. People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

David Lee Roth

#30. Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Michael Palin

#31. I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

Action Bronson

#32. I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

Martin Freeman

#33. I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

David A. Siegel

#34. God knows you can stand to be mine. You could say that you're not attracted to me, but we both know that you'd be lying. Tell me your price, Annabelle. Any sum you'd care to name. Do you want a house of your own? A yacht? Done. Let's get this over with - I've had enough of waiting for you.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak.

Stefan G. Bucher

#36. My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

Dorothy Hamill

#37. My yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the revenue

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty.

Neal Shusterman

#39. Now, about your timetable. It may spread out a little more than you thought. They want me to visit the palace and see it for myself. We're to go in the Emir's yacht, leaving tonight.

Susan Leona Fisher

#40. Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

Honore De Balzac

#41. I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson

#42. Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht ...

Francine Pascal

#43. The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

Lewis Francis Herreshoff

#44. I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Christine O'Donnell

#45. The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one's self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer's yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts for all expenses incurred in the line of duty.

Charles Stross

#46. My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

Chloe Sevigny

#47. Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

David Lee Roth

#48. It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht.

Grant Naylor

#49. In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

Craig Brown

#50. I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

Dhani Jones

#51. For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

Robert Harris

#52. If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

Mickey Rooney

#53. [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Johnny Depp

#54. I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

Audrey Tautou

#55. I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

#56. I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

Gautam Singhania

#57. I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles. "Oh shut up.

Kathy Reichs

#58. Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

Ernest Hemingway,

#59. From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

Mordechai Vanunu

#60. People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found out that Tony Hayward was on his yacht, he was so angry, he missed a putt.

David Letterman

#61. And of all the objects under my immediate advisement I noted this yacht with the most pleasure and approval. White in colour, in size resembling a young liner, it lent a decided tone to the Chuffnell Regis foreshore.

P.G. Wodehouse

#62. When you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

Anthony Robbins

#63. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram