Boat Quotes - Page 6

• Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Running, Destiny, Difficult Choices

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• I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

  Victoria Pratt

  Missing You, Children, Kids

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• We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

  Vernon Howard

  Water, Understanding, Desire

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• When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.

  Bill Murray

  Trying, Relax, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

  Francis Chichester

  Sailing, Nautical, Answers

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Men, Sea Breeze, Sailing

  Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.2, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

  Donald Hamilton

  Long, Sailing, Nautical

  Donald Hamilton (1980). “Cruises with Kathleen”, David McKay Company

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• Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

  Joanna Baillie

  Moving, Justice, Notes

  Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Growth, Rising

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• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

  Will Ferrell

  World, Handmade, Sail

  "Megamind Interview, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross & Director Tom McGrath". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 24, 2010.

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• I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

  Nina Simone

  First Love, Love Is, Men

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• A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.

  Tom Peters

  Burning, World, Littles

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• I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

  Stephen Fry

  Getting Older, Trying, Comedy

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  People, Car, Watches

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

  Antony Hewish

  Sea, Grew Up, Coast

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• Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

  Phillip Noyce

  Mean, Thinking, Knives

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• I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

  James Hetfield

  Beer, Guitar

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• When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

  Josh Lucas

  Storm, Way, Environment

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• There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

  Errol Flynn

  Brother, Lying, Sea

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• Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Writing, Long, Hills

  Daphne Du Maurier (1972). “Vanishing Cornwall”

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• Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.

  Michael Drayton

  Rivers, Feet, Lakes

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