Boat Quotes - Page 18

• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Fall, Men, Ice

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• It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

  Harold MacMillan

  Tea, Storm, Paper

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• Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Humorous, Might

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• Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Nuts, People

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• I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

  Helena Christensen

  Ocean, Sharks, Broken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world

  R. M. Ballantyne

  Men, Years, Sailing

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• I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

  Candace Bushnell

  Space, Age, Chicago

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• I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

  Bryan Clay

  Golf, Fishing, Hiking

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• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  Jerry Doyle

  Air, Years, Fishing

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• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  Nadia Giosia

  Night, Parent

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• For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Ocean, Bigs

  Song: Movement Vi: Innocence

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• Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

  Robert Cray

  Politics, Lawyer

  Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  Jack Hanna

  Nests, Alligators, Come Up

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• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  Aaron Levie

  Pride, Thinking, Organization

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• I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

  Jason Priestley

  Night, Water, Missing

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• I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Girl, Hate, Hands

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• That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

  Marco Rubio

  Order, People, Doe

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• There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rocks, Humanity

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• I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Writing, Buying, Skit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  Rachael Taylor

  Art, Ocean, Wild Places

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

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• The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Mind

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Take advantage of this human boat;
  Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
  This vessel will be later hard to find.
  The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Sleep, Sorrow

  Shantideva (2007). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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