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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Quotes by Zosia Mamet

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

Quotes by William Kidd

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Quotes by William Falconer

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Quotes by William Falconer

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Quotes by William Falconer

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

Quotes by William Bligh

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

Quotes by William Bligh

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

Quotes by William Bligh

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

Quotes by William Adams

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Quotes by William Adams

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

Quotes by Wietse Venema

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

Quotes by W. H. Davies

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Quotes by Vin Scully

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Quotes by Thomas Reid

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Quotes by Thomas John Barnardo

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

Quotes by Sundar Pichai

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

Quotes by Steven Strait

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

Quotes by Steve Southerland

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Quotes by Sirio Maccioni

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

Quotes by Shaukat Aziz

Bill Macy is the most incredible, humble, and hungry human being, and that is the captain of our ship. He is phenomenal. We still laugh together, and we still talk and text and check on each other.

Quotes by Shanola Hampton

I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

As a massive fangirl myself, having people ship any of my characters is just beyond cool.

Quotes by Sarah J. Maas

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Quotes by Samuel J. Palmisano

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Quotes by Samuel Johnson

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Quotes by Sadie Jones

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Quotes by Rose George

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

Quotes by Rose George

When it comes to representing the WWE, I don't like calling myself the 'face of WWE' because we have so many faces and so many superstars. We are a team, we're a roster, and we're a locker room. It absolutely takes every man to make this ship sail.

Quotes by Roman Reigns

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.

Quotes by Roger McNamee

Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Quotes by Robert Bork

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Quotes by Robbie Fowler

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

Quotes by Ricky Schroder

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

Quotes by Rick Perry

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Quotes by Richard V. Allen

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

Quotes by Richard Quest

Our family get-togethers are about the stories such as my uncle who walked across the Indo-Burma border, or a woman who gave birth in a ship carrying refugees etc.

Quotes by Rasika Dugal

When we shipped 'Borderlands 2,' we didn't ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We didn't have any software built or strategy in place.

Quotes by Randy Pitchford

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

Quotes by Rand Beers

The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.

Quotes by Phebe Novakovic

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Quotes by Pete Ploszek

We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.

Quotes by Paul Tonko

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.

Quotes by Paul Hawken

Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.

Quotes by Paul Fleischman

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

Quotes by Patrick Stewart

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

Quotes by Pamela Anderson

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Pablo Picasso

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Quotes by Owen Feltham

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Quotes by Omar N. Bradley

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

Quotes by Niels Arden Oplev

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Quotes by Nguyen Cao Ky

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu

I always say a song is like a ship. Once it has been made, you let it sail. Let the waves take it in the direction it wants to.

Quotes by Mohit Chauhan

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

Quotes by Mitchell Baker

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

Quotes by Mike Pence

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

Quotes by Michelle Magorian

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Quotes by Michael Urie

There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.

Quotes by Megan Smith

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

Quotes by Maury Yeston

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Quotes by Max Aitken

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Quotes by Mary Pope Osborne

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Quotes by Mark Hamill

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Quotes by Majel Barrett

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

Quotes by Lysander Spooner

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.

Quotes by Lowell McAdam

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.

Quotes by Lisa Lutz

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

Instead of turning loose these bogus asylum applicants onto the American streets never to be seen again, let's put them into mobile homes. Let's process their claims. Let's ship the judges in. Have the claims processed right there. As soon as their claim is denied, put them on a passenger plane and fly them right back home.

Quotes by Kris Kobach

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Quotes by Kirk Gibson

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

Quotes by Joshua Slocum

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Quotes by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Quotes by Jose Andres

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Quotes by Jonathan Winters

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Quotes by Jon Heder

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

Quotes by Johnny Galecki

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

John Steinbeck

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Quotes by John Paul Jones

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

Quotes by John Moody

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Quotes by John Masefield

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Quotes by John Lennon

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Quotes by John Bunyan

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

Quotes by John C. Hawkes

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

Quotes by John C. Hawkes

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

Quotes by Johann Most

They don't sell the Nathan's hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I just end up getting Nathan's to ship them to me.

Quotes by Joey Chestnut

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

Quotes by Joe Sestak

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

Quotes by Joe Gebbia

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Quotes by Joe Hill

Democracy is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative values by which we can move forward. If we cannot insert our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a ship lost at sea.

Quotes by Jill Stein

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

Quotes by Jesse Ball

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Quotes by Jean Anouilh

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.

Quotes by Jared Padalecki

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Quotes by James Reston

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Quotes by James Callaghan

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