Shipping Quotes - Page 2

• When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Progress, Safe, Economy

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

  Dr. Seuss

  Selling More, East, Needs

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

  Rob Corddry

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

  "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

  Donald Dunn

  Brother, Kings, Jobs

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• For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Long, Digital, Reason

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• After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Thinking, Clerks

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  Caprice Bourret

  Thinking, Here I Am, Lists

  "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Cities, Soldier

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• Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle

  Money, People, Greek

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• The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

  Douglas Bader

  Holiday, Sea, Dover

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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• We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.

  Paul Maritz

  Microsoft, Intention, Throat

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• Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Water, Reform

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• Kinzie smiled smugly. “You admire our base of operations? Yes, our distribution system is worldwide. It took many years and most of our fortune to build. Now, finally, we’re turning a profit. The mortals don’t realize they are funding the Amazon kingdom. Soon, we’ll be richer than any mortal nation. Then—when the weak mortals depend on us for everything—the revolution will begin!” “What are you going to do?” Frank grumbled. “Cancel free shipping?

  Rick Riordan

  Years, Amazon, Kingdoms

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• Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

  Arthur Miller

  Summer, Morning, School

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.138, A&C Black

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• To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

  Aldo Leopold

  Successful, Rivers, Next

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.223, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mother, Climbing, Should Have

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.

  Will Self

  Good Night, Goodnight, Fall

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• If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Years, Want, Asks

  "Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

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• My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

  Kathy Griffin

  America, Railroads, Vanderbilt

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• What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, Printing, Reader

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Decision, Beef

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.

  Sylvia Earle

  Strong, Law, Numbers

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• Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

  Charles Dickens

  Dirty, Clouds, Fog

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