Wood Ships Quotes

#1. There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

Janice Thompson

#2. If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Aristotle.

#3. What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

Joseph Stiglitz

#4. There were no leftover feelings for him, but seeing someone toss Alex around like a Frisbee made me slightly ill. Possibly because in the back of my head, I wanted to be the one doing it.

Jus Accardo

#5. Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558.

Gordon S. Wood

#6. Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

William Bligh

#7. Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

Hermann Hankel

#8. To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

Michael Oakeshott

#9. Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business ... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.

Deion Sanders

#10. I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

Aasif Mandvi

#11. The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.

Tara Reid

#12. And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror.

Jim Butcher

#13. My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.

Nick Robinson

#14. We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

Marilyn Yalom

#15. A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

Gracie Allen

#16. He hadn't even come to the Teddy Roosevelt School with Sampson.

James Patterson

#17. I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

Eve

#18. We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

David Berg

#19. We've been together for thirty-five years," Alec had said. "We've no call to change now.

Eva Ibbotson