Last Ship Quotes

#1. The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years.

Neal Stephenson

#2. 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.

Rachel Tucker

#3. Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.

John Pyper-Ferguson

#4. When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

Mitchell Baker

#5. In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#6. A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

Daniel Quinn

#7. A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Melissa De La Cruz

#8. When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock!

Nicole Leigh West

#9. The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Robbie Fowler

#11. Is it raining out?' the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. 'No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.

Bill Bryson

#12. Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying

Suzanne Collins

#14. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

Ernest King

#15. I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

Helen Clark

#16. I'm convinced that frats are the beginning of the end for most of the people who end up running the world. It teaches them to give up individuality, independence, and even their paper for acceptance.

Eddie Huang

#17. How many losses does it take to stop a heart,
to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Dorianne Laux

#18. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

#19. Eli was known to run a tight ship, and the last few years, old Pat had neglected the

Michael Phillip Cash

#20. Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Phoebe Cary

#21. No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.

Naomi Novik

#22. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.

Haruki Murakami

#23. Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.

Walter Lord

#24. Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

#25. A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.

Joseph Conrad

#26. Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it's Monday, too late ... But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?

George Carlin

#27. the ship. When he slashed through the last one, he forgot to

Rick Riordan