Top 100 The Boat Quotes
#1. Lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.
"Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.
Philippa Gregory
#2. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.
Sarah Jo Smith
#3. When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
Pamela Stephenson
#4. Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky.
Rachel Lewis
#5. You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#6. You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.
James A. Baldwin
#7. Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask
"Who's driving the boat?"
Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.
Jennifer Echols
#9. Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
Richard Siken
#10. I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.
Chris Elliott
#11. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
Stephen Crane
#12. Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
Dave Barry
#14. On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
George Grey
#15. There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth; In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from the group, one by one, into the boat At Charon's signal, as a bird is called to its lure.
Dante Alighieri
#17. if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
William Shakespeare
#18. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.
Edward Albee
#19. A doll is a witness who cannot die, with a doll you are never alone. On the long journey under the earth, in the boat with two prows, there were always dolls.
Margaret Atwood
#20. A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.
David Reuben
#21. I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
Harlan Coben
#22. I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau
#23. I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#24. We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.
Antonis Samaras
#25. If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. Hmmm,
Susan Juby
#26. I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry
#27. Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.
Suzanne Collins
#28. We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.
Walter Isaacson
#29. Music is everywhere," Maude said softly. "It is in the water, in the wind's hum, in the bird's cry, in the boat's horn. Rhythm surrounds us. That is one of life's greatest gifts.
Anna Adams
#30. There was a roar from the shadow-tiger mask around the Harley, and Murphy swept up alongside the boat. I leapt down onto the back of the bike in a single smooth motion, which I felt was cool, and landed with too much of my weight on my genitals, which I felt was not.
Jim Butcher
#31. Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.
Peter Lerangis
#32. Where are we?" Nick shouted.
"I don't know, you're the nautical one. I just piloted the boat out of the harbor."
"Pirated! You pirated it out of the harbor!"
"Semantics.
Abigail Roux
#33. 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
#34. America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
James Ellroy
#35. Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
Donna Rice
#36. I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.
Richard Branson
#37. What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.
Woody Allen
#38. The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what it means. What are you talking about!!"
"I didn't know how boats this big work, alright.
Trenton Oldfield
#39. Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
Jeff Bridges
#40. I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Sam Neill
#41. She catches the fish, she cleans the fish, she cooks the fish, I just drive the boat.
Tssully Todd
#42. The cabin door swung open and Molly belly-crawled onto the deck until she could see me. "Who started shooting at us?"
"Bad guys!" I cringed as another round hit the side of the boat and peppered me with wooden splinters. "Obviously!
Jim Butcher
#43. Her moment came. Nobody was looking. She sidled quickly across the deck and lost herself among the crates that clustered at the base of the boat's shuddering, discoloured funnel. The air tasted of salt and guilt, and she felt alive.
Frances Hardinge
#44. When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
Bernie Mac
#45. She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived there, were gone: were rubbed out; were past; were unreal, and now this was real; the boat and the sail with its patch; Macalister with his earrings; the noise of the waves
all this was real.
Virginia Woolf
#46. Lucullus certainly couldn't sail the boat. Cats make lousy sailors.
Manel Loureiro
#47. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain
#48. I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
Orson Welles
#49. Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'
Hank Smith
#50. We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
Mark Rutte
#51. Everything that we want is downstream ... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.
Esther Hicks
#52. How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?
James Buchanan
#54. We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat we finally arrived on the shores of Africa.
Groucho Marx
#55. I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.
Diane Wilson
#56. Please say you'll be my wife. I want you tied to me in every way a man can be tied to the woman he loves. I can't live without you and I never want to try. Share the boat with me. Share your life with me. If you will, I promise to keep you safe and happy every day for as long as I draw breath.
M. Leighton
#58. For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
Hilaire Belloc
#59. Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
Garth Ennis
#60. You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.
Chris Kilham
#62. The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
Richard M. Nixon
#63. But I want to stay here. (Jeff)
And people in hell want ice water and if you don't go to the boat, you'll probably be able to take it to them in person in about twenty minutes. (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" - MATTHEW 14:29
Sarah Young
#65. A storm caught them on the way. The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn.
George R R Martin
#66. In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.
John Selden
#67. The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!
Phillip Thomas
#68. But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing.
George Eliot
#69. I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.
James D'arcy
#70. Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.
Esther Hicks
#72. Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.
Sone No Yoshitada
#73. The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.
Baba Hari Dass
#74. He's not safe. He's the shark-infested deep end of the sea and if I agree to go out with him, I'd be walking the plank, right off the boat and into his dark depth. How am I supposed to do that when I don't even know if I can swim?
Colleen Hoover
#75. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Yasmin Mogahed
#76. Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.
Craig Groeschel
#77. For the boat in a lake to be able to appreciate the calm waters, it must know the giant waves of the oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)
Sapphire.
#79. Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
Mark Hoppus
#81. I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.
Bob Cousy
#82. So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air!
Mark Twain
#83. Muddle of farewells before we put off; we talked a little about the boat, our fellow-passengers and our prospects, and then I said: "I think you mentioned last night a name I know - that of Mr. Porterfield." "Oh no I didn't!
Henry James
#84. We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.
Patricia Schroeder
#85. My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
Randall Park
#86. We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.
Mia Kirshner
#87. I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
Victoria Pratt
#88. It's like fishing
you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.
Dusty Baker
#89. Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light.
Rachel Patterson
#90. In the stern sat Aragon son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blowing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king returning from exile to his own land.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.
Kellie Elmore
#92. The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.
Mark Batterson
#93. The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.
C.S. Lewis
#94. There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat - draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.
Richard Louv
#95. If you look over in that direction, like two hundred yards, you will see some birds walking. Never drive the boat toward where the birds are walking. First rule of navigation.
John D. MacDonald
#96. The water that floats the boat can also sink the boat if not controlled.
Saji Ijiyemi
#97. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#98. I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
Cate Blanchett
#99. Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA.
Eddie Huang
#100. Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.
Constance Wu
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
