The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. — Amelia Barr
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. — Steve Finley
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. — Anita Loos
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. — Tony Hsieh
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. — Grace Hopper
There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. — Jon Stewart
Many a ship is lost within sight of the harbour — Irish Proverbs
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
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is for. — English Proverbs
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers! — Bill Shankly
When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want — Ellen MacArthur
Short Cruise Ships Quotes
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. — Robert Fisk
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get. — Randy Harrison
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit. — Lil' Kim
There is only evolution or devolution. Growth or regression. There is no cruise control. Because stasis is an illusion. — Rich Roll
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy. — Ivana Trump
Hospitality doesn’t belong just in the hospitality industry—restaurants, hotels, cruise lines, tourism—but in every industry, in every company, in every transaction. — Jeff Lawson
Ships At Sea Quotes
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. — Walter Winchell
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. — Alan Villiers
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
Sailing Ships Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
I am not afraid of storm for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. — Mary Roach
I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship. — Jared Padalecki
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. — Misha Collins
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. — Gavin MacLeod
A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people. — Garrison Keillor
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else. — Vivienne Westwood
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits! — Barack Obama
Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by bit, in a golden sarcophagus, biding his time until he had enough power to challenge the Olympian gods. In demigod-speak, we call this a “problem.” - Percy, 'The Battle of the Labyrinth — Rick Riordan
I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me. — David Bowie
Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment. — David Kay
I'm very happy with the things I do. Maybe I'm just lucky I like to do so many things. I don't remember any musical job that I did only for the money. Even when I worked as a music supervisor on cruise ships I did it for romantic reasons. When I work for TV it's because I want to. — Gregor Schwellenbach
One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat. — Margaret Cho
To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury
yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100
feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can
remain submerged for up to 3 weeks. — Garrison Keillor
Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with. — Joe Quirk
I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban. — Robert Scheer
I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language. — Yakov Smirnoff
I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals. — Phil Keoghan
My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship. — Rob Schwimmer
One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had. — Ralph Gibson
I was actually on two reality shows, which is crazy. Just to think that, out there, there was some guy, like flipping through the channels, being like, 'Hey, I 69'd her on a cruise ship. — Amy Schumer
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking. — Simon Cowell
Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship. — Stephen Colbert
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb. — Helen Van Slyke
I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship. — Max Barry
Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call. — Chris Shays
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts. — John Cheever
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. — Anna Godbersen
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship. — Chuck Palahniuk
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