Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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

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.

Let the boat work - and not me!

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.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

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

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

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 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 penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Only those who row the boat make waves

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.

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.

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

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.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

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.

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.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Shooting of a sex scene is never going to something where you're having a wonderful time. It's a very intimate thing and a very intimate space to be put into - that's usually a space reserved for one. To have someone else in that proximity is pretty jarring, but we're all in the same boat and we're all experiencing the same anxieties.

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

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

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'