Sinking Ship Quotes

#1. Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom.

Anonymous

#2. There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Anne Carson

#3. Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Max Aitken

#4. I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

Daniel Clowes

#5. Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Nick Flynn

#6. If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first ... Why can't we apply the same morals here in our nation?

Timothy Pina

#7. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.

Donal O'Callaghan

#8. Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

Sarah Palin

#9. But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

Sarah Dessen

#10. It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Robbie Fowler

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

Lynn Dickey

#12. In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running like rats from a sinking ship, down the ropes only to drown. He watched the backs of their heads.

J.P. Moore

#13. How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

Sebastian Junger

#14. His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Edmund Wilson

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

John Pugsley

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. So, what is the opposite of a "helicopter parent?" I wonder. A subway parent? A Sinking ship parent? A hibernating bear?

Wendy Wunder

#19. This is going to be a lot for the Congress to swallow, even on the deck of a sinking ship.

Kenneth Eade

#20. It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.

Michael Chabon

#21. As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.

Virginia Woolf

#22. In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.

Raymond Radiguet

#23. He fell
from the sinking ship
to the roiling sea
of uncertainty,
into the hands
of the one mermaid
who knew exactly
how to save him.

Kirk Diedrich

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

Sarah Palin

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

Nancy Dunnan

#26. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.

Upton Sinclair

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

Simon Cowell

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#29. I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones September 23, 1779. He said this when his ship was on fire and sinking.

Steven Atwood

#30. It's all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen. (Oct 4, 2011)

Wynne McLaughlin

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

Susanna Centlivre

#32. If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

Kirk Cameron

#33. Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

John Ruskin

#34. When a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.

Hans Christian Andersen

#35. The sun burned like a fire ship on the water, sinking slowly till only a red smoke was left trailing up the sky. A fishing boat was headed into the harbor, black and small against the enormous west. Above its glittering wake a few gulls whirled like sparks which had gone out.

Ross Macdonald

#36. The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

Tom Waits

#37. 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

#38. The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Kinky Friedman

#39. Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#40. And you know what happens when a ship gets too many rats on board? It sinks. That's what.
I wondered if a ship had ever really sunk that way.

David Wong

#41. God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.

Kevin Alan Milne

#42. They were all on his side. Hi boat sank.

Ljupka Cvetanova