Houseboat Quotes

#1. His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

Janet Fitch

#2. I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.

Richard Branson

#3. I'm scanning the sky for doo-doo missiles, when there's a bloodcurdling scream. An ugly thing with a human body, ears like a rabbit and a face so grotesque it would make gladiators wet their pants leaps off the roof of the houseboat. It lands right in front of me.

J.E. Fison

#4. But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting.

Arthur Ransome

#5. I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

Bear Grylls

#6. I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#7. I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

Rainn Wilson

#8. You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Donna Mills

#9. It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.

John D. MacDonald

#10. If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

Debbie Ford

#11. I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

Noah Hawley

#12. In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Everything was good.
But it was awful, too.

Markus Zusak

#14. I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Maria Sharapova

#15. The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

Walt Disney

#16. Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,
but only your need for someone to blame.

Toba Beta

#17. Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.

Lily Graham

#18. A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Barbara Deming