Top 100 Ship Quotes
#1. He was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao
Yukio Mishima
#2. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#3. Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down
Melanie Jackson
#4. Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
James H. Boren
#5. We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#6. On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
William Bligh
#7. Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!
Jon Heder
#8. Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ... but winds have a mind of their home.
Avi
#9. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.
Libba Bray
#10. I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.
Phyllis Diller
#11. Sign your work ... If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.
Seth Godin
#12. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
Deborah Levy
#14. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
Eileen Caddy
#16. the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness,and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#17. We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
Garrison Keillor
#18. I thought you only had eyes for your ship."
God, she was beautiful. "Until I met you.
Lisa Kessler
#19. What if the house catches fire?"
"Roast marshmallows. And if it floods, you'll go down with the ship. If there's a tornado, I'll meet both you and this house in Oz, after my shift. Got it?
Rachel Vincent
#20. I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
Mark Hamill
#21. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Edvard Munch
#22. her down. She was limited by biology and her flightsuit. Dwelling on her own constraints gave Molly another crazy idea. She recognized the old Tchung ship designs they were up against. If the missiles
Hugh Howey
#23. What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
David R. Brower
#24. About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
Virginia Woolf
#25. You're a professor of astrophysics? And you want to be the ship's cook?" "Is the job in space?" "Yes." "Then I wish to be the ship's cook,
Anonymous
#26. The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#27. At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
Bill Goldberg
#29. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
Alan Villiers
#30. The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
Samuel Rutherford
#31. They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
Laurence J. Peter
#32. Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.
She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days.
From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE
Destin Bays
#33. As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.
Edgar Allan Poe
#34. Well, I got my hand. What more does a man need?"
"Yes, and you've used that hand three-thousand times since you took over the ship."
[David to Miranda]
Mark Alders
#35. No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
#36. If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.
Kirk Gibson
#37. Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
George R R Martin
#38. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
George Chapman
#39. All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross
#40. Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.
David Ignatius
#41. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.
J.Z. Colby
#42. There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!'
Niecy Nash
#43. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here.
James S.A. Corey
#44. I think this ship's brand new," said Ford. "How can you tell?" asked Arthur. "Have you got some exotic device for measuring the age of metal?" "No, I just found this sales brochure lying on floor
Douglas Adams
#45. My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
Eva Hart
#46. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?
Thanhha Lai
#47. ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
Kahlil Gibran
#48. I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#49. Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered.
Kenneth Oppel
#50. What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?
Scott Lynch
#51. I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.
Fernando Pessoa
#52. It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
Alan Green
#53. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson
#54. You want to know what's even more troublesome?" I scooted up. "Our real names rhyme."
He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that.
Diana Peterfreund
#55. Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#56. We weren't a ship of fools so much as a rowboat of idiots.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#57. I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song
Phil Wickham
#58. One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
Margaret Cho
#60. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#61. His absence from her for so many weeks had had such an effect upon him that his demands, his desires had grown; and only the night before, as his ship steamed, beneath summer stars, in sight of the Irish coast, he had felt all the force of his particular necessity. He
Henry James
#62. I've always wondered though," Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?"
"Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?"
"Until they learn a new position.
Sabrina Zbasnik
#63. Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
John C. Maxwell
#64. the ship. When he slashed through the last one, he forgot to
Rick Riordan
#65. I'll talk to her." Mirren's deep, rumbling voice sliced through the room like a cutter ship, leaving silence in its wake. "The rest of you, get the hell out.
Susannah Sandlin
#66. What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
Corrie Ten Boom
#67. She had turned to her anger, harboring herself there. A ship anchored in tumultuous water.
Sarah Noffke
#68. The ship began moving. And Chaol - the man she hated and loved so much that she could hardly think around him - just stood there, watching her go.
Sarah J. Maas
#69. The ship groans, moans, bangs, and clangs, miserably protesting this turn of events. 'I
Robert Jackson Bennett
#70. In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
Paul Watson
#71. POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing.
Greg Rucka
#72. I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Aaron Ciechanover
#73. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.
Anonymous
#74. There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#76. If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
Terry Pratchett
#77. You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low." The
James S.A. Corey
#78. Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.
Henning Mankell
#79. Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
John C. Maxwell
#80. Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
Jim Rohn
#81. We're waiting for a ship to come in that never went out.
Luci Swindoll
#82. God knew she was a troublesome wench, with a tongue that could strip the barnacles off a ship's hull.
Sabrina Jeffries
#83. There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#84. I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
Charles Darwin
#85. Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
Stefan Molyneux
#86. A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in
Karen White
#87. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#88. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
Peter Ustinov
#89. As I watched that single thread of lightning billow through the water above me like the aurora borealis, I imagined the heavy cord of time stretching away from me in the water like the hard, thick rope on a great ship.
Laura Whitcomb
#90. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid
#91. There was no hiding the fact that they were in a predicament, but there was no hesitation to mention failings that might reflect poorly on any department. That made it easier for the captain to assess the situation. He doubted a similar meeting aboard his own ship would have progressed as well,
Taylor Anderson
#92. Undergarments flapped wildly on the fire escapes above, soiled with sweat and blood: private stains, flying high over the city like crests on the flags of a ship.
Leslie Parry
#93. I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.
Phil Anselmo
#94. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.
Dan Pearce
#96. Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.
Gabrielle Zevin
#97. She had already contacted her Peacemaker to ensure that everything there was as it should be. Ironholgs had spat and buzzed as if annoyed at being disturbed, but all was well. She yearned to be back in the ship, alone.
Tim Lebbon
#98. In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.
Rabbi Akiva
#99. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#100. We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.
Charles Spurgeon
