Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Let the boat work - and not me!

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

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.

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.

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

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.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

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

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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.

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

Only those who row the boat make waves

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.