Ships Quotes - Page 30

• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

  Johnny Depp

  Sailing, Black, Nautical

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• Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

  Gregory Harrison

  Stars, War, Cigarette Smoke

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• Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

  William Adams

  Done, Captains, Lost

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• On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

  William Bligh

  Morning, Anchors, Two

  William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

  Charles Frohman

  Littles, Wonderful, Bigs

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, United States

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• From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

  William Adams

  Taken, Clothes, All Things

  Thomas Rundall, William Adams (1850). “Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society”

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• Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.

  Josh Holloway

  Stars, People, Goes On

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• We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

  Hulk Hogan

  Running, Opposites

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• Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Mind, Desert, Might

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• It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Real, Men, Leaving

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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• There can be only one Captain to a ship.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Captains

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• It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

  Andrew Natsios

  People, Cost, Four

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• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Discovery, Interesting, World

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Princess, Islands, Two

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• Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Light, Space, Fusion

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

  Gil Gerard

  Blue, Used, Shots

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• In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

  William Dampier

  Water, Half, Miles

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition

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• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  John Hewson

  War, Troops, Ridiculous

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

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• Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

  Frank Gaffney

  Sea, Events, Dozen

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• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  William Whipple

  Thinking, Enemy, Experience

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• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Years, Two, People

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Effort, Fruit

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.

  Walter Mosley

  War, Heart, Fighting

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