Quotes About Ship

The ship did. All by itself." "Huh?" "While we were in Improbability Drive." "But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.

Zaphod sighed a "what is the world coming to" sort of sigh to absolve himself from all blame, and swung himself around in his seat. "Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

It had been late one night—of course. It had been a difficult day—of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system—of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.

What sort of ship are we in?' asked Arthur as the pit of eternity yawned beneath them. 'I don't know,' said Ford, 'I haven't opened my eyes yet.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

The alien ship was already thundering towards the upper reaches of the atmosphere, on its way out into the appalling void which separates the very few things there are in the Universe from each other.

It seemed somehow unnaturally dark and silent, even for a ship whose two-man crew was at that moment lying asphyxicated in a smoke-filled chamber several miles beneath the ground. It is one of those curious things that is impossible to explain or define, but one can sense when a ship is completely dead.

Many of the Spanish by this time had fallen sick, and quite a few had died, due to the unsanitary conditions on board ship and the impossibility of escaping contagion. In a few years, fully half of Columbus's fifteen hundred soldiers would be dead of disease.

The point of a cruise ship is the cruise itself. But an ocean liner's job is to transport people on a schedule. The

Life is really like a ship–the interior of a ship, that is. It has watertight compartments. You emerge from one, seal and bolt the doors, and find yourself in another. My life from the day we left Southampton to the day we returned to England was one such compartment. Ever since that I have felt the same about travel. You step from one life into another. You are yourself, but a different self. The new self is untrammelled by all the hundreds of spiders' webs and filaments

But that was beauty, of course—some vague, fancied picture of a woman flying through the night with white draperies streaming out behind her… Something like the figurehead of a ship—only not so solid… not nearly so solid…

In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.

He had a contract, and he was confident in the capabilities of his vessel.

I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

I really like the pirate look.

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

There's a verse in Proverbs that speaks to me. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, four which I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid." The

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

I suppose, because I've been able to make a very good living writing books, that going out and finding another million dollars under the sea is not the fascination. The fascination is in finding the ship.

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

At the end of 1912, then, the United States Navy had in commission six First Generation Dreadnoughts. In all of them, the wing turret was eschewed in favour of centre-line disposition; the turbine had arrived; armour plate and internal subdivision were equal to all but the German Dreadnoughts; the average speed was rather below those of its rivals, the gunpower rather above; in size, the latest pair exceeded that of any other capital ship in the world except the latest British battle cruiser.

The British suffered worse casualties than in any previous naval battle, and more than twice as many as the Germans. But the material losses were not so heavy as at first appeared. Because of the very rapid development of the Dreadnought-type ship, the Invincible and Indefatigable were already outdated. The Queen Mary was a more modern battle cruiser, but she was much less valuable to the British than was the brand-new Lützow to the Germans.