Ship Quotes

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

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 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.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

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.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

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.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

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.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

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

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.