Ships Quotes - Page 24

• Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

  Jon Heder

  Earth, Rockets

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• A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Men, Arms

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Bipolar

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• I can jump ship and swim--
  that the ocean will hold me,
  that there's got to be more
  than this boat I'm in.

  Ani DiFranco

  Ocean, Swim, Boat

  Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

  Campbell Newman

  Home, Night, Bed

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!

  Joshua Slocum

  Sea, Remember, Lord

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

  Kenny Chesney

  Baby, Happy Love, Wave

  Song: You Save Me, 2005

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• The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Animal, Whales

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• Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Venice, Lovely

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• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Whales, Amusement

  Jonathan Swift, William Wotton (1811). “A tale of a tub,: written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battle between the ancient and modern books in St. James's Library”, p.43

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

  Carl Jung

  Strong, Mean, Son

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• You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

  Aristophanes

  Wall, Children, War

  Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

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• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

  Vannevar Bush

  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Sound, Pilots

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. II, Ch. 29

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

  Walt Whitman

  Sailing, Done, Leaves Of Grass

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.

  Alan Shepard

  Facts, Lows, Built

  "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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• Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

  Michael Foley

  Men, Islands, Two

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

  Robert Mugabe

  Problem, Used, Ancestor

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• You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

  Dan Harmon

  Looks, Stories, Love Story

  "Dan Harmon on Harmontown: 'You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story'". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2014.

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• But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, My Favorite, Ends

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• When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

  Johannes Kepler

  Stars, Men, Void

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Sky

  Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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• The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

  Kinky Friedman

  Art, Writing, Fiction

  "Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman". Book by Kinky Friedman, 2006.

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