Ships Quotations

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the seabed), not by hefty ships that travel more slowly than senior citizens drive.

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.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

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

It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

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

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

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

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

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

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

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.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

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

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

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

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

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

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

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

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

In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.

I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, although I don't know if we're supposed to be on it forever. Now, does that mean that we should be building rocket ships to shoot us into outer space? Well if we can, I think we should.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

When you triple our commitments around the world, while at the same time taking the Army from 14 divisions down to 10... and the Air Force from 17 wings to 13 ... and the Navy from well over 400 ships down toward fewer than 300 -- That Mr. Gore, is

The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

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.

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

The wake doesn't drive the ship

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

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

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

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.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

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.

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

What we know today is that children all over America have the right to learn-whether their ancestors came to America on slave ships or the Mayflower.

There is a shipping boom and a port boom. As long as China is driving the market, the attraction of ships and ports will be sustained.

There are more ships floating around the Caribbean than any other place in the world.

We're adamantly fighting any attempt to transfer pollution from North to South, from rich to poor. These ships are moving precisely because the environmental and labor costs in developing countries are much less than they are in the developed countries.

The expectations are we'll come up with something that will work relative to our economics. But everyone knows this cuts real deep. We're going to have to make this work in the league. We're going to have to run some tighter ships in managing our costs.

The fact that our ships continue to receive accolades and praise from our guests and the media is testament to our solid commitment to excellence. This is the second consecutive year that Silver Whisper's suites have been voted the best in the world. While it's always gratifying to receive this type of recognition, you can be sure we're not about to rest on our laurels, but will keep looking for new ways to enhance our award-winning experience.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

Loose lips sink ships.

There are these inexpert American seamen, never in a naval battle before, on their ships waiting for their first fight. It's morning. They look across Cumberland Head and they can see the tops of the British masts above the trees. They are thinking -- Oh my God, what are we facing,