Ships Quotes - Page 39

• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

  Andy Partridge

  Book, Jealous, Kissing

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• Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

  Andy Partridge

  Singing, Doorways, Murder

  Song: Me And The Wind

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Country, Storm, Captains

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 209), 2004.

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• Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more?

  Celine Kiernan

  Dwelling, Pirate, Shadow

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Weather

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.

  Laura Nyro

  Thinking, Space, Waiting

  Song: The Right to Vote, Album: Mother's Spiritual

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• In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  Lovely, Quality, Relation

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• Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

  Wanda Koop

  Beautiful, Travel, Years

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• It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

  Michael Moorcock

  Men, Thinking, Return

  "The Eternal Champion". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

  Henry Abbey

  Sea, Tree, Knees

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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• I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Men, Sea, Desert

  J.M.G Le Clézio (2010). “Desert”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Ocean, Men, Cities

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• I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Guy

  "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

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• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mystery

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.314, Applewood Books

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• The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Ocean, Soul, Hammers

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• Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

  Jean Kerr

  Water, Accomplishing Something, Staring

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Running, What If, Splendid

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• I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

  Jane Austen

  Boards, Has Beens, I Can

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.206, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

  Etty Hillesum

  Ocean, Sailing, Desire

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

  Jane Wagner

  Failure, Night, Two

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• There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Sea, England

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• Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

  Phoebe Cary

  Courage, Giving Up, Fighting

  Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175

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