Boat Quotes - Page 7

• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

  Paul Farmer

  Kids, Eight, Six

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• You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

  Mark Shields

  People, John Kerry

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• I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

  Casey Affleck

  Fish Tanks, Remember, Fishes

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

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• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  Sam Neill

  Bottles, Champagne, Bigs

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• I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

  John Breaux

  Done, Congress, Members

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• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, John Kerry, Command

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

  Denis Johnson

  Ocean, Writing, Enjoy

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• My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

  Anna Held

  Dog, People, Littles

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• I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Boys, Bait, Fish Tanks

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• When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hours, Miles

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• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Elderly, Cities

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• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Football, Team

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

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• We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

  Martin Ryle

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

  William Christopher Handy

  Rivers, Tennessee

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

  William Adams

  People, Understanding, Able

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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  Garth Ennis

  Book, Character, Literature

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• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sea, People, Soldier

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

  Robert Burns

  Art, Rivers, Lakes

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Women, Safety, Storm

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• The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Haiti, Claims, Made

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• If you boat a lot, you're known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don't want to ever be referred to as a 'boating enthusiast'. I hope they call me 'a guy who likes to boat'.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Guy, Want, Likes

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• We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Country, Japan

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• In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

  Zhuangzi

  Yelling, Rivers, Adrift

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