Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Only those who row the boat make waves

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.

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 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.