Boat Quotes - Page 38

• After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

  Jimmy Carter

  Boys, Fishing, Rivers

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.74, University of Arkansas Press

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• There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

  Zane Grey

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mind, Belief, Responsible

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• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

  Martha Stout

  Girl, Children, Mean

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• A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

  Martha Stout

  Daughter, Rocks, People

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• No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Ocean, Heart, Cutting

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.49, Manic D Press

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• What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Eye, Upset, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.185, BookRix

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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Orange, Looks

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• Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Bridges, Rivers

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Dark, Evil

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?" "To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool." Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Hands, Bills

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.126, Penguin

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• Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Mean, Virginia

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• What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Fire, Yeah, Explosions

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Captains, Captain Beefheart

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• An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

  Thomas McGuane

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.98, Vintage

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• Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

  Thomas McGuane

  Teaching, Sea, Fishing

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

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

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Football, My Family, Retiring

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• I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

  Gerry Schwartz

  Inspirational, Wind, Water

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• Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Rocks, Volunteer

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Vocabulary

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.130, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Rivers, Lakes

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

  Herb Kelleher

  Responsibility, Egomania, Should

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• Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Australia, People

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". Interview with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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• I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact, all I need is what I've decided on, in my heart to believe. In all the crossing confusion and haste of numerous opinion and stance, my own opinion has become my own boat from where I observe the raging opinions of the sea, relaxed, drinking my lemonade and feeling very amused by it all.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Drinking, Believe, Heart

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