Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it.

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

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.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

I'm going to start water skiing someday...as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

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.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

Let the boat work - and not me!

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.