Ships Quotes

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

It's not easy to take three ships out of service.

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.

Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

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

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Every ship should have a cat.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

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