Boat Quotes - Page 38

• I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

  Brian May

  Sea, Belief, Bigs

  "Pop Quiz Classic: Brian May of Queen". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. January 8, 2006.

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• When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

  Jamie Farr

  Country, Different, Incredibles

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Inspiration, Rocks, Rivers

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• Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Dog, Grandmother

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• We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please.

  Gordon Korman

  Return, Canals, Please

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, House, Parent

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• I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

  William Ellery Channing

  Sea, Laughing, Happy Place

  William Ellery Channing, “From: A Poet's Hope”

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• The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

  Robin McKinley

  Light, Water, Rose

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• Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

  Neal Stephenson

  Add, Saws, Idiot

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rocks, Sky, Waves Breaking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

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• I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

  Tennessee Williams

  Summer, Lasts, Moonlight

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

  Herman Melville

  Light, Mind, Way

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.327, Northwestern University Press

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• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Islands, People

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• Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Negative, Might

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• ‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

  John Green

  Grateful, Water, Floating

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• No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

  James St. James

  Goats

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

  Kristin Cashore

  Two, Purple, Mind

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.235, Penguin

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• She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Grief, Kissing

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• Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.

  James Patterson

  Dark, Pirate, Singing

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• The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Years, Floating

  "It". Book by Stephen King, September 15, 1986.

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• Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

  Maureen Johnson

  Oil, Soul, Cost

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• Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

  John Boyne

  Ask Me, Wells, Ifs

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.60, Random House

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• Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlórien shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Memories, Blessed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

  Sylvia Plath

  Names, Addresses, Hanging On

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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