Top 1200 Row Boats Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

I think a lot of the production process is always giving yourself, like what I call like escape routes, like, if this scene doesn't play, if we realize we've had too many dirty scenes in a row, and it's like, because you don't have the luxury when you're in the middle of shooting, to see how these scenes play all in a row, kind of, you know what I mean. So, like we're always trying to like have insurance policies on, ok, if that doesn't work, we can just jump to this thing.

The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

In fact, there are only two things in this world that I'm crazy about, boats arid women.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Little boats should keep near shore

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

I've always loved the water and boats so Whitsundays is magnificent.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

It's a lot harder to rack up a big bill on clothes and shoes than on boats and cars.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

I was always good at fixing things growing up. I wanted to work on boats. That was what my dad did.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.