Top 1200 Tall Ships Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends! Alison [McGhee] and I look very much like, I was going to say Bink and Gollie, but I meant Mutt and Jeff. We look ridiculous when we walk down the street together, because she's so tall and I'm so short. But yes, tall people and short people can, and should be, friends. I, personally, like being short. I think it makes things easier.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

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

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

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs - why would I do that? I've got length, I've got reach, I've got speed; I've got footwork and defense, but that's not what's going to be the difference in this fight. It's not a tall guy versus a short guy - It's Chris Algieri versus Manny Pacquiao. It's what I bring to the table versus what he brings to the table. I think a lot of it has to do with my mental preparation and mind going into this fight as well as what we know from Manny.

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.

I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

We have a lot of ships coming in and transmitting to us and bringing the information. So, it's very powerful.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.