Ships Quotes - Page 25

• The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

  John Masefield

  Heart, Rivers, London

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• Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

  Richard V. Allen

  Office, January, Winner

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• First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.

  Roger Bacon

  Art, Moving, Men

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon and Jupiter. Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Ocean, Future

  "Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger". Book by Edward Rosen, p. 39, 1965.

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• Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Moving, Law

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Australia, North And South

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• Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

  Dmitri Volkogonov

  Running, Truth, Lying

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• Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

  Robert G. Allen

  Goal, Creative, Orbit

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Sea, People, Suffering

  Vivienne Westwood (2016). “Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood”, p.60, Serpent's Tail

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• To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury
  yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100
  feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can
  remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

  Garrison Keillor

  Senior, Weekend, Luxury

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.

  Eva Hart

  Mother, Flying, Faces

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• The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

  Norman Corwin

  Moving, Thinking, Blow

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• If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Long, Firsts, Embarrassed

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• Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
  Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
  Careering o'er the lonesome main,
  No port shall know her keel again...
  Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
  The sailor finds there eternal night,
  'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
  And Ocean will the secret keep

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Ocean, Sleep, Night

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

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• Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

  Wietse Venema

  People, Doe, Use

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• Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

  Henry Petroski

  Airplane, Design, Done

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• If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Hero, Rise Above, Crisis

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• My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

  Emanuel Celler

  Girl, Grandmother, Catholic

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• You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

  Dan Harmon

  Looks, Stories, Love Story

  "Dan Harmon on Harmontown: 'You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story'". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2014.

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• Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

  Johann Most

  Stupid, America, Prejudice

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• An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Team, Law

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• What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Emperor, Whole

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

  Louis L'Amour

  Wind, Yesterday, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.14, Bantam

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• Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

  Walter Winchell

  America, Sea, Borders

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