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

"I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"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"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"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

"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

"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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