Seasick Quotes

#1. Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

Gregory Maguire

#2. If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Mark Twain

#3. It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

John Masefield

#4. It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

John Fox Jr.

#5. A wave is a pretty thing to look at when it breaks on the beach, but too many only make you seasick.

Stephen King

#6. We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point.
"No. Just sick of myself."
"Why?"
"Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.

Andrea Camilleri

#8. Seasickness ... is caused ... by the disturbance ... to the inner ear " he said. " You just need ... to ... look ... at ... the horizon ... " His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.

Kate Forsyth

#9. When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.

Samuel R. Delany

#10. By the essence of their nature, which was frail, all human beings were probably doomed to be seasick.

Eudora Welty

#11. People who don't get seasick have no idea what it's like. It's not just nausea. It's nausea plus losing the will to live.

Maria Semple

#12. Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

Michael Scott

#13. Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are.

Katharine Brush

#14. As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

Kristin Armstrong

#15. This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

Harold Wilson

#16. The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

Harold Wilson

#17. The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

Alison Croggon

#18. If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen

#19. God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

John C. Reilly

#20. When you falter, all eludes.
This is a seasick way,
this almost/never touching, this
drawing-off, this to-and-fro.
Subtlety stalks in your eyes,
your tongue knows what it knows.
I want your secrets - Iwillhave them out.
Seasick, I drop into the sea.

Adrienne Rich

#21. Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home.

Miriam Toews

#22. They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Barry Pepper

#23. I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.

Cassandra Clare

#24. You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.

Steve Burke

#25. The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Chloe Thurlow

#26. How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

Daniel Handler

#27. You're insane." "Crazy for you, baby," Ed whispered at his ear.

Heidi Cullinan

#28. Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Charles R. Swindoll

#29. I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

Seasick Steve

#30. I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

Mason Cooley

#31. If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Tisha Venturini

#32. And it's a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.

Donna Tartt

#33. We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Chuck Schumer

#34. Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

Liane Moriarty

#35. The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Lemony Snicket

#36. We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Susie Orbach

#37. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Mick Jagger