Boat Quotes - Page 8

• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

  Rebecca Wells

  Friendship, Harbors, Courses

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

  Jeff Bridges

  Wind, Water, Different

  Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.17, Penguin

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• Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

  Earl Nightingale

  Men, Long, Track

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• I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

  Aaron Spelling

  Airplane, Mean, Kids

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• A boat can't have two captains.

  Akira Mori

  Two, Captains, Management

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• The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

  Alice Clayton

  Rocks, Want, Sail

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.

  Greg Behrendt

  Motor Vehicles, Cake, Phrases

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• In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

  Roderick L. Evans

  Life, Wind, Hymns

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• Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Men, Water

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• I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

  Laura Dekker

  House, Want, Ifs

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• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Dream, Country, Islands

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• I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

  Guy Clark

  Curves, Hands, Two

  Song: Boats To Build, 1992

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• Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humble, Wind, Sailing

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• If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

  Caroline Manzo

  Breathing, Trying, Wave

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• All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

  Francois Truffaut

  Movie, Film, Break

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

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• I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

  Diane Wilson

  Eight, Water, Captains

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

  Michael Caine

  Song, Growing Up, Pirate

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• Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Book, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press

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• Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Finding Yourself, Firsts, Spirituality

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years at 'Alice's Restaurant'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 13, 2015.

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• I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.

  Neko Case

  Fishing, Voice, Singing

  "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.

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• I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

  Michael Lewis

  Morning, Wall, Regret

  Michael Lewis (2010). “Liar's Poker”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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• And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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