Quotes About Ships Sinking

#1. She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.

Renee Ahdieh

#2. Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

John Pugsley

#3. You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

Simon Cowell

#4. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Mignon McLaughlin

#5. When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Gunter Grass

#6. If you want to lead, study Moses; if you want to manage study Pharaoh.

Jason Taylor

#7. If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Pope Francis

#8. All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.

George R R Martin

#9. Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Susanna Centlivre

#10. Snow does not freeze the hands, but like ether distends the lungs until they burst. All the ships are sinking with fire in their bowels, and there are fires hissing in the cellars of every house.

Anais Nin

#11. If you are planning to work very hard, start working by screwing around! Lounge about at home; fool around in the streets or in the fields! Laziness will fill you with energy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

Lynn Dickey

#13. The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

John Barrasso

#14. With self-discipline, all things are possible

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

Samuel Johnson

#16. I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.

Gilda Radner

#17. Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Nancy Dunnan

#18. When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

Shia Labeouf

#19. Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time.

T.H. White

#20. It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Sarah Palin

#21. My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

David Foster Wallace

#22. We are dying birds we are sinking ships - the world rocks down against us and we throw out our arms and we throw out our legs like the death kiss of the centipede: but they kindly snap our backs and call our poison politics.

Charles Bukowski

#23. I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#24. People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#25. People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

Philip Yancey

#26. I'm sorry I made you cry, it's the last thing I would ever want to do....Unless it's out loud....during a moment of passion

Lesley Jones