Boat Quotes - Page 35

• I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

  Albert Belle

  Years, Cities, Cleveland

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, ECW Press

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• No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.

  Alfred Doblin

  Country, Water, Peaceful

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• I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

  Douglas Leone

  Summer, Jobs, Teenager

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Swimming, Rivers

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• I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Germans Know Something About Business". Interview with Christoph Pauly and Janko Tietz, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2008.

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• I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.

  Jason Mraz

  Beach, Sorry, Moving

  "Jason Mraz Is Turning the Tide". Interview with Anna Griffin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

  John D. Voelker

  Fun, Sea, Fishing

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• Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.

  Brad Paisley

  Home, Sea, Fishing

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• The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Memories, Grateful, Sea

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• I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

  Ed Zern

  Morning, Sea, Fishing

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• If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

  Hal Borland

  Sports, Country, Boys

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Dark, Night, Sea

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• A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

  Robert Ruark

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

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• The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

  Ed Zern

  Sex, Lakes, Sea

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• The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

  Ed Zern

  Wall, Lakes, Sea

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• There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

  John D. Voelker

  Angel, Beer, Men

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• Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.

  G. E. M. Skues

  Mean, Lakes, Sea

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• You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.

  Robert Benchley

  Rain, Lakes, Sea

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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