Quotes About Cruise

Somebody on board wanted to kill him. No record exists of the exact moment Robert Wilmott, captain of the Morro Castle, a cruise liner shuttling between New York and Havana, Cuba, finally came to this conclusion. But by the time the ship docked in Havana on September 4, 1934, the captain had decided that somebody on board did want to kill him.

Robert Wilmott, ponderously firm and earnest, lacked imagination. To the passengers aboard the Morro Castle, however, he was a public-relations press release come true, a dream of what a liner captain should be. He epitomized the advertised enchanted world of a sea cruise, in which there is no death or danger, where the seams between reality and magic are always caulked.

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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

All the things you're not supposed to do on land you're supposed to do on a cruise because it's one of America's official responsibility-free zones, like Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve or Courtney Love. Twenty-four-hour free buffets all over the place, raunchy stage shows, countless bars that won't cut you off as long as you can knee-walk into a casino and blow the mortgage—

Ahoy, to the Phantom Rider, Lincoln Slade! He will not be speaking at the Nerd Cruise banquet. Mr. Slade is here for personal reasons (murder, stalking).

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

You're starting to see programs literally completely supported - all the data usage supported by a company. So our friends at AwesomenessTV are doing a series set on a cruise ship called 'Royal Crush' completely subsidized by Royal Caribbean cruises because they're trying to have teens see that cruises can be cool.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

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They feed you, like, eight times a day, which is why cruise people always look like hairless water buffalo wearing sneakers.

There is something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that's unbearably sad. Like most unbearably sad things, it seems incredibly elusive and complex in its causes and simple in its effect: on board the Nadir—especially at night—I felt despair. The wor's overused and banalified now, despair, but it's a serious word, and I'm using it seriously.

I pay for the privilege of handing over to trained professionals responsibility not just for my experience but for my interpretation of that experience—i.e. my pleasure. My pleasure is for 7 nights and 6.5 days wisely and efficiently managed… just as promised in the cruise line's advertising—nay, just as somehow already accomplished in the ads, with their 2nd-person imperatives, which make them not promises but predictions.

I've been to the Bahamas. It's a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother's neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama... but with better accents.

Mab: You know, Bill, you should see an optometrist about that rolling-eye problem. Makes you look rude and patronizing.

Even a song on the radio that completely lacks substance is there for a reason. Sometimes, people need a break from cold reality; the song that you really don't have to put that much thought power into can be just as entertaining as something that might take you on a three- or four-minute cruise through the depth of reality.

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

I touched the thought like a cruise, testing for its ache.

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.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Another feature on the new bikes was something I never thought I cared about—cruise control.