Quotes About Sinking Ships

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Philip Yancey

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

Simon Cowell

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas McGuane

#7. I lost so much energy in taxis, planes, hotels, phone calls and interpreters. Now, with the help from my little successes, I do everything in the same place with everyone around me. That's how a good job gets done.

Michel Ocelot

#8. I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

Myles Horton

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

George R R Martin

#10. The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Shilpa Menon

#11. Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

H.L. Mencken

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

Susanna Centlivre

#13. 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

#14. I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I'm writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.

Don Carpenter

#15. Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

Benjamin Banneker

#16. I think what's so interesting for people is that I don't take it so seriously and yet I am still immersed in the [fashion] industry,

Leandra Medine

#17. 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

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

Lynn Dickey

#19. There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

Colin Trevorrow

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

John Pugsley

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

Nancy Dunnan

#22. There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

John Hull

#23. 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

#24. Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Brent Spiner

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

Sarah Palin

#26. We might do better, instead, to distance ourselves, both practically and emotionally, from those whom we consider to be our equals and yet who have grown richer than us.

Alain De Botton

#27. Think about it: the chances of meeting your other half are tiny. Most of us are doomed to knowing there's something better out there but we can't discover it.

Joss Stirling

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

#29. God Almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

#30. I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

Robin Trower