Top 230 Ship Quotes

Any design, whether it’s for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

I’d been an Army bomber pilot and fascinated by the Navy and, particularly, the story of the Enterprise, which at Midway really turned the tide in the whole war in our favor. I’d always been proud of that ship and wanted to use the name.

My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.

The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we’d like to keep it that way, and we’re confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.

There’s a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who’ve never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!’

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It’s going to be a lot tougher than you think.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

I did get to hang out with my dad for a little while. I went with him to summer stock. I watched him be a real king of the world. He’d ship out as a star in summer stock. He sometimes directed the shows. I learned a lot from him – not just about acting, but about everything, how to handle a woman.

I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.

There’s this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I’m a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they’re an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.

I’m like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

It didn’t get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

Well, you know, I kind of lived my whole life with people, on a Navy ship, and I’m son of an immigrant. And we’ve all – really appreciate being able to make something clear in a simple way that families quite understand.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

As a director and captain of the ship, there are many things that demand your attention – crew members, locations, budget etc.

When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship.

I remember watching ‘The Lunchbox’ that released around the same time ‘Ship Of Theseus’. Both films found space in the independent cinema circuit. But at a personal level, ‘The Lunchbox’ is one of the favourite films.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there’s no getting back on it.

I’ve had lots of things that didn’t work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes – I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

‘Instagram’ is an app that only took 8 weeks to build and ship but was a product of over a year of work.

I didn’t know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start reading, I thought now this is interesting, you know, the hows of what happened, the actual – the actual sinking of the ship.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I’d always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.

Well Belmont is the kind of track where we’ve had a lot of success, as have a lot of people in California, where you can ship in there, in a few days run the horses, the horses will run great and there’s few tracks where you can do that.

I think, fortunately and unfortunately, I’ve got a lot of experience in playing for teams that have been in this situation where we lost a few games and we’ve got to stay the course, we’ve got to right the ship, and we’ve got to do all of that stuff.

Ever since I read ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it’s not like ‘Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?’ or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

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

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It’s just the natural order of things in TV – in life – and is as it should be.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won’t fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

I don’t wilt easily, and a director can’t either. He’s the captain of the ship and he’s got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he’s working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I’m very comfortable there. And I’m not afraid.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

They don’t sell the Nathan’s hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I just end up getting Nathan’s to ship them to me.

Avenues opened right after I did ‘Ship of Thesus’ but doing films where there is big money involved or has big stars involved is not the reason I came to Mumbai.

Making a paper straw requires growing a tree, cutting it down, and pulping and pressing it into a tube. Manufacturers then use fossil fuels to ship the straws to stores and cafes. Many paper straws on the market are not even compostable or recyclable, as promised.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I’ve always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.