The Last Ship Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening.

Rachel Tucker

#3. Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.

John Pyper-Ferguson

#4. When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

Mitchell Baker

#5. In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#6. A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

Daniel Quinn

#7. The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

Chris Cornell

#9. 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

#10. Is it raining out?' the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. 'No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.

Bill Bryson

#11. Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

Ernest King

#13. I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

Helen Clark

#14. I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin....
She stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies.

Dana Marton

#15. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

#16. Eli was known to run a tight ship, and the last few years, old Pat had neglected the

Michael Phillip Cash

#17. Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

Phoebe Cary

#18. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton

#19. No, my dear," he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. "I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.

Naomi Novik

#20. Every adult should know that the appropriate place to eat ice cream is on the couch in front of the TV, watching TLC. "(mouthful of ice cream) See, those Hoarders, they're the ones with the problem!

Jim Gaffigan

#21. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.

Bill Buford

#23. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Al Smith

#24. To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

Sophocles

#25. Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.

Walter Lord

#26. A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows.

Joseph Conrad

#27. Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. Suppose that you didn't make your Easter duty and it's Pentecost Sunday, the last day, and you're on a ship at sea. And the chaplain goes into a coma! But you wanted to receive. And then it's Monday, too late ... But then you cross the International Date Line! Would that then be a sin then, Father?

George Carlin

#29. the ship. When he slashed through the last one, he forgot to

Rick Riordan