Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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 like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

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 laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

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

[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 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.

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 met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

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

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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'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.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

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

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.

Let the boat work - and not me!

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.

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

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

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 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.

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