Ship Sailed Quotes

#1. First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy."

~Lord Bourne

Sarah MacLean

#2. As for being a good man,' and Glokta curled his lip, 'that ship sailed long ago, and I wasn't even there to wave it off.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.

Christopher Paolini

#4. Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#5. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Julie Murphy

#6. I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

John Grisham

#7. I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs
I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Rob Bell

#8. Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Seamus Heaney

#9. I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

Billy Campbell

#10. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm

#11. Not that she'd ever be completely cool when she was around Austin. Oh no, that ship had long since sailed. Sure, she could be the serene, put-together owner of Eden with others, but as soon as she got near the bearded man, she wanted to melt.

Or kneel and lower her gaze.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#12. he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.

Dana Marton

#13. ...but that ship had sailed; and then the island I had watched it depart from, had sunk.

Quil Carter

#14. Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.

Alan Moore

#15. Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Gary D. Schmidt

#16. The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working against us. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us.

Yuval Noah Harari

#17. I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Steven Seagal

#18. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. As I turned into my driveway, it occurred to me that I would have loved to curl up with a good man instead of a good book tonight. But that ship had sailed for me. Literally.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#20. There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

Conor Oberst

#21. Sometimes no matter how far off course your ship has sailed in the seas of life ...
it becomes obvious that you must turn around and sail in the right direction. Sometimes it will be a higher calling and mandatory to save your life.

Timothy Pina

#22. There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

John August

#23. It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

Thomas Hardy

#24. 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

#25. A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

John Keats

#26. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.

Alexa Vega

#27. Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me - that ship has sailed.

Elle Lothlorien

#28. And it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

#29. If you had love in your heart, you would show respect to those who have nothing and also to those who have everything; you would neither be afraid of those who have, nor disregard those who have not. Respect in the hope of reward is the outcome of fear. In love there is no fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

Joshua Slocum

#31. You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane," I said. "Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason," said Becks. "That ship has sailed.

Mira Grant

#32. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.

Anais Nin

#33. Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

Christina Dodd

#34. I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

Melissa McCarthy

#35. Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?

Christy Leigh Stewart

#36. What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.

Judith Ivory

#37. He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

H.L. Mencken

#38. 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

#39. You're a fool," Quinhelm accused. "Any man who would allow himself to be bewitched by a woman needs a good dunking in a cold barrel of water." (Quinhelm, the wizard, from BRIGGEN)

Ann B. Keller

#40. The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Jimi Hendrix

#41. I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

Paddy Considine