Quotes About Ship

She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. "Our stewardess laughed," Mrs. Lines recalled, "and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions.

The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship.

All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over.

Tom," Ara said. "All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were Impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Now that you have ceased to be careful of yourself I must ask you to be, please. For us and for the ship.

Ever since they had grounded he had felt, in a way, reprieved. When they had grounded he had felt the heavy bump of the ship as though he were hit himself. He knew it was not rocky as she hit. He could feel that in his hands and through the soles of his feet. But the grounding had come to him as a personal wound. Then, later, had come the feeling of reprieve that a wound brings. He still had the feeling of the bad dream and that it all had happened before.

The first of the tea ships, the Dartmouth

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

The tall Khitan lifted his head and gazed at Publio, so that the merchant broke into a profuse sweat. "What do you wish of me?" he stuttered. "A ship," answered the Khitan. "A ship well manned for a long voyage." "For how long a voyage?" stammered Publio, never thinking of refusing. "To the ends of the world, perhaps," answered the Khitan, "or to the molten seas of hell that lie beyond the sunrise.

The end of his worke Part of the worke remaines; one part is past: And here my ship rides having Anchor cast.

Infinity is something like the horizon seen from a ship - no matter how much you advance towards it, it is always beyond your reach. Trying to calculate pi is a going without a getting there.

Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray now that we were ashore. No

In this mythology of seafaring, there is only one means to exorcise the possessive nature of the man on a ship; it is to eliminate the man and to leave the ship on its own. The ship then is no longer a box, a habitat, an object that is owned; it becomes a travelling eye, which comes close to the infinite; it constantly begets departures.

a ship is a habitat before being a means of transport.

Perhaps Nansen, or at least the name of his ship, owed something to Verne as well. Jules Verne, the great French pioneer of science fiction, had also shown interest in the Arctic. Some thirty years earlier, he had published The English at the North Pole, in which there figured an expedition ship called Forward – of which Fram, naturally, was the Norwegian equivalent.

In the standard telling of his life, Hamilton boards a ship in October 1772 and sails off to North America forever.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Adina appealed to the sky. We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs? Thank you, God, Petra said.

He worked as one of the two servants allowed Milbourne in his capacity as ship's carpenter: 'servant' in this context meaning an apprentice under training. Both