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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. — Sadie Jones

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear. — Joss Whedon

It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard. — Michael Chabon

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood. — Johnny Galecki

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable. — Erik Larson

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. — Robin Hobb

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. — Herman Melville

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. — Sophocles

She had turned to her anger, harboring herself there. A ship anchored in tumultuous water. — Sarah Noffke

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. — Thomas Carlyle

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong. — Woody Allen

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction. — Louise Penny

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas. — Geoffrey Rush

Every space movie has a nutjob on the space ship, Henry says. And until you kill the nutjob, everybody's in danger. — Jason Gurley

If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea. — Scott Lynch

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives. — Ron Garan

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story — Dan Harmon

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I'm not a pirate, and she's not my captured princess. — Simone Elkeles

Homesteads fronting on streams went like oranges aboard a scurvy-ridden ship. — Marc Reisner

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas. — Aldo Leopold

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. — Margaret Atwood

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure. — Roger Clemens

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go. — Joel Ross

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. — Max Aitken

I must go down to the sea ... to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by ... — John Masefield

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore? — Justin Cronin

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. — Louis L'Amour

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. — Henry Van Dyke

They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder. — Henry Miller

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! — James Elroy Flecker

Sayings from Chairman Jobs." 1. Real artists ship. 2. It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. 3. Mac in a book by 1986. — Andy Hertzfeld

Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world. — Hilda Lewis

build a new ship out of old wood or you're destined to sink. — Andrea Smith

It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be. — Scott Lynch

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book. — Emily Dickinson

Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship. — Sara Paretsky

Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812, — Kate Milford

This was life; you went down with the ship. Who was to say that wasn't a love story? — Matthew Thomas

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Enough about me. Tell me about Princess Marigold. Ever been on a pirate ship? — Erica Ridley

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. — Nick Offerman

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that. — Sundar Pichai

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on ... that is like a joke of awesomeness. — Cass Sunstein

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip! — Phoebe Cary

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course. — Glen A. Larson

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
dancing. — Honore De Balzac

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. — James Joyce

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship. — Mel Brooks

Ship, lady. This here's a ship," he said defensively, as if she'd told him, "Your penis: I find it minuscule. — Kresley Cole

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett

People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We're all spiraling out of control. — Beth Revis

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails. — Rick Yancey

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. — Wes Fesler

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Eli was known to run a tight ship, and the last few years, old Pat had neglected the — Michael Phillip Cash

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. — Umberto Eco

Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked! — Nikos Kazantzakis

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

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. — Abraham Lincoln

A woman nearby fell to her knees, sobbing. 'They say I can only choose one child for the ship. How can I choose? Please don't make me choose. — Ruta Sepetys

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She'd learned that home was a fluid thing and whether on a planet, a satellite, or a rusted bucket of a ship, this crew was her home. — Melissa Landers

You're a professor of astrophysics? And you want to be the ship's cook?" "Is the job in space?" "Yes." "Then I wish to be the ship's cook, — Anonymous

Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship. — Susanna Clarke

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair. — Richard Henry Dana Jr.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Discovery was no longer a happy ship. — Arthur C. Clarke

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it. — John Darnielle

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. — Albert Schweitzer

A warning light flashed. Fain cursed. "Ah now you've gone and broke the damn ship, Dagan. Can't we let you do anything?" Caillen — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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. — Pablo Picasso

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid

When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship. — Kristin Kimball

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas

Land is a frontier for ship; it cannot go beyond it! The extent of dreams is a frontier for human being; it cannot go beyond it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life. Such is the power of association. — Swami Vivekananda

There never was a ship that fought well without she was a happy ship. — Patrick O'Brian

There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship! — Scotty McCreery

A ship must be floated and launched before it can be drowned and sunk. — John Zande

Generation ship," Holden said. "Something like that will give us the stars." "Or a lonely death on a long trip to nowhere," Miller replied. "You — James S.A. Corey

Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. — James Patterson

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish. — Brendan

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description. — P.G. Wodehouse

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship. — Elsa Triolet

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — Robert Louis Stevenson

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?. — Dada Bhagwan

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. — Cary Grant

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform. — Dave Winer

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea. — William Hope Hodgson

Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see. — Ellen Emerson White

A rotten ship is not afraid of the storms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan