Top 107 Stranded Quotes & Sayings

Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.

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

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Zion and communities like it have been unfairly saddled with storing our nation's stranded nuclear waste... with no compensation in return. The federal government needs to make right by these communities.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

With the quarantine and borders suddenly closing it could have meant suddenly being stranded on the other side of the planet. It's a shame I haven't been able to see my family in Australia but it never became an option. But certainly, when it's all over I will be heading back.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

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

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.

It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America to be invested in new jobs, research and growth.