The Boat That Rocked Quotes

#1. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#2. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.

Gilad Atzmon

#3. Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word ... nothing actually happens.

Richard Curtis

#4. Often a single act of kindness sets a series of kind acts in motion.

Richard Carlson

#5. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Richard Curtis

#6. We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Sibel Edmonds

#7. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#8. I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

Vincent Lo

#9. FORGIVE OR NOT, AS YOU WILL, AND KNOW ALWAYS THAT YOU ARE A HURRICANE IN THE BODY OF A GIRL, GLORIOUS AND FEARSOME AND WONDERFUL AND CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.

Seanan McGuire

#10. My medical students. Two cups of human misery in short white coats. One is male and the other one female, and they both have names. That's all I can ever remember about them.

Josh Bazell

#11. Ah, I know that," said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. "Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small things ... "
"Row like the blazes, lads!" Rob Anybody yelled.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an explanation.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. If you'd just learn to do as I say from the beginning, I wouldn't have to follow up your errors with reproving smirks and repeated I-told-you-sos.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

Louis C.K.

#15. You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Richard Curtis

#16. During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

Daley Thompson

#17. The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.

Thomas Merton

#18. I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#19. The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed.

Ellen J. Barrier

#20. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

Arnold Bennett