Ships Quotes

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

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

I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these very old, aging, aging ships. They're old. They're tired.

My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

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.

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

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

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

Intel's Pentium III processor operating at 1 GHz is the highest performance microprocessor for PCs, enabling Intel's customers to ship the fastest personal computers in the world.

The sea is certainly common to all.

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

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.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

Loose lips sink ships.