Boat Quotes: Inspiring Nautical Sayings and Wisdom (Page 2)

"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"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"Does this boat go to Europe, France?"

Anita Loos, Writer

"I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off"

Denis Johnson, Writer

"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"

Paula Poundstone, Comedian

"Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat"

Andrew H. Malcolm

"These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully"

Bootsy Collins, Musician

"A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it"

Bill Copeland, Athlete

"To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid"

Edgar Lee Masters, Poet

"I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night"

Chris Elliott, Comedian

"I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue"

Sam Neill, Actor

"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out"

James D'arcy, Actor

"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

"After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"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"

Perry Como, Musician

"Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me"

Nelson Piquet, Celebrity

"We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat"

Felicity Kendal, Actress

"I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat"

Joe Flanigan, Actor

"The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better"

John Breaux, Politician

"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it"

Bill Conti, Director

"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

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