Boat Quotes - Page 36

• I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.

  Erykah Badu

  Running, Country, Heart

  Source: alexmacpherson.tumblr.com

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• Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.

  Phillip Adams

  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

  Ted Williams

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

  Robert Altman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

  Nelson Piquet

  Jobs, Reflection, Motor Racing

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• I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

  John Dyer

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

  Ted Turner

  Zero, Courageous, Journalism

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• In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

  John Moody

  Car, Three, United States

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

  Bill Johnson

  Perfectly Good, Water, Thieves

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• Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat racing is speed not margin. Boat X beats boat Y by two lengths over 1000 meters in a time of 2:54. After exchanging "Dave" from X to Y for "Scott," Boat X beats boat Y by one length in a time of 2:51. From the rower's perspective, the result is that Dave beats Scott by a length. But in Mike's eyes, Scott beats Dave because on the second piece, X was three seconds faster-even though it only beat Y by a length.

  Chris Ahrens

  Eye, Two, Perspective

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• From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

  Kevin Johnson

  Airplane, Littles, Helicopters

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• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

  John Gay

  Powerful, Sea, Fishing

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

  Robert Hughes

  Sports, Football, Sea

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.300, Vintage

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• ...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

  John McPhee

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan

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• For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog... we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he?

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Keys, Fog

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Cute, Clothes, Toys

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• I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

  Erin McCarthy

  Cute, Sides, Want

  Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.100, Penguin

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• You get married, you start having responsibilities. It's really hard if your dream hasn't caught some traction by the time you're in your mid-to-late 20s. You want to provide for your family. I would say, the majority of people fall in that boat. They want to do something, but life gets in the way. And they're like "well, I'm going to get this job, and have safety and security."

  Jeremy Coon

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Simple, Sea, Fishing

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• We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

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