Quotes About Ship

I have just had a thought about the cut of the Minerva's spanker-boom.' 'How little I understand of that sentence,' she said, admiring his drawing. 'And is there truly something on a ship called a f'c'sle? It seems to have an unwarranted excess of apostrophes. My suspicion is that when we landlubbers are not by, seamen do not use these words at all and talk quite normally.

What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? (note from me: of course I don't believe this, I just thought it was interesting)

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña.

Green, how much I want you green.Green wind. Green branches.The ship upon the seaand the horse in the mountain.

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you're cooking.

Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,My senses have been stripped,My hands can't feel to grip,My toes too numb to stepWait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'.

We found a loophole," he said. "Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn't have to receive ten books, you only had to order ten books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, 'Sorry, but we're out of the lichen book.

A pushed-back cap had the crossed slide-rule symbol of ship's computer man.

Ever see a plant with teeth—that bite? I don't think you want to. You'd have to be on Pyrrus and that means you would be dead within seconds of leaving the ship.

how on still nights, when there is no breeze stirring the waves, the Nautilus sails on the blue waters of the Indian Ocean in his "ship of pearl.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.

Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

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

The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.

Krivak slammed the hatch shut and waited for the depth gauge to show the ship coming shallow, listening to the other missile launches. What a beautiful sound, he thought.   The fourth-launched Mark 98 Tigershark torpedo struggled to an angry consciousness, its

Da soll mich doch gleich ein gekochter Hummer kitzeln, grollte der Kapitän

The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails.

Using the most conservative assumptions suggested by the cruise ship—an attack rate of 20 percent and a fatality rate of half of 1 percent—you wound up with 330,000 dead Americans.