Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost liftable with one hand, and quite tippy, and is being piloted by a 12-year-old, but it is the true feeling of having your life in someone else's hands, and it's very precarious.

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.

I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

If you ever see me at a boat show or at a car show, blow my head off.

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

If you boat a lot, you're known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don't want to ever be referred to as a 'boating enthusiast'. I hope they call me 'a guy who likes to boat'.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.

If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do it. It's unfinished, it has no start-stop time, it's fluid. Practicality relies on indeterminate markers. It's just another kind of knowledge that's sexy, in a certain way. It's reactive, and often physical.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

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 grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

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 have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

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'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 met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

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

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 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'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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.