Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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 rock the Vote, You have to Rock 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.

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

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

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

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

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

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

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'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 not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let the boat work - and not me!

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

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.

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

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.