Boat Quotes - page 4

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. (Howie Carr)
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. View quote
James Wolcott
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. View quote
Jane Birkin
I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better. View quote
John Breaux
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. View quote
John Moody
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is. View quote
Laura Dekker
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet. View quote
Mark Carwardine
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him. View quote
Mark Shields
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. View quote
Mark Shields
A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course. View quote
Mike Weir
When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many. (Pamela Stephenson)
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. View quote
Perry Como
I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat. View quote
Rafael Palmeiro
Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. View quote
Tony Hillerman
A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
Olaf: I'm a genius! I've solved all of our problems! Look! Violet: Renaming the boat doesn't solve any of our problems. View quote
Daniel Handler
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows that the captain lied... And everybody knows that you're in trouble... Everybody knows it's coming apart. Take one last look...Before it blows. Everybody knows. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing ... Silence ... Waves. - Nothing happens? Or Has everything happened, and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life? View quote
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you. View quote
Ayn Rand
Each boat is worth the price of a new university and they are watched by gin-soaked yachting types, male and female, in captain's hats lounging in deckchairs inside Perspex covered enclosures at the front of yet more expensive, floating country houses representing nothing more than elegantly vulgar expressions of dodgy wealth. The America's Cup. (Ralph Steadman)
Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution. View quote
Pat Buchanan
The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
At one point the driver said, "For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there." Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives. View quote
Jack Kerouac
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher