Wrecked Boat Quotes

She came to a little wrecked pleasure-steamer, which had become embedded in the mud several summers ago and which no one had bothered to remove. It had been a vulgar, tubby little boat when it used to steam through the water with its handful of holiday-makers, giving shrill whistles at every bend and causing a wash that disturbed the fishermen as they sat peacefully on the banks; but, now it lay sideways in the mud with its gaudy paint all bleached, it was almost beautiful. ~ Barbara Comyns

Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU. ~ Merri Lisa Johnson

On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat. But the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea, and with no thought for themselves went out day and night tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become associated with the station and give their time and money and effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new crews trained. The little life-saving station grew.
Some of the members of the life-saving were unhappy that the building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and put better furniture in the enlarged building.
Now the life-saving station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they decorated it as sort of a club. Fewer members were now interested in going to sea on life-saving missions, so they hired lifeboat crews to do this work. The life-saving motif still prevailed in this club`s decoration, and there was a liturgical lifeboat in the room where the club initiations were held.
About this time a large ship was wrecked off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boatloads of cold, wet and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some had black skin and some ha ~ Ross Paterson

A romantic painting shows a heap of icy debris in a polar light; no man, no object inhabits this desolate space; but for this very reason, provided I am suffering an amorous sadness, this void requires that I fling myself into it; I project myself as a tiny figure, seated on a block of ice, abandoned forever. "I'm cold," the lover says, "Iet's go back"; but there is no road, no way, the boat is wrecked. There is a coldness particular to the lover, the chilliness of the child (or of any young animal) that needs maternal warmth. ~ Roland Barthes

A boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat
still has all the possibilities of moving ~ Dionne Brand

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later. ~ Melissa Bank

You stole a boat," she snapped. "What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic? ~ Cassandra Clare

If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all. ~ Charles Addams

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat. ~ Jay Rayner

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone. ~ Diane Wilson

Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat? ~ CM Punk

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat. ~ Mark Hoppus

They were all on his side. Hi boat sank. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. ~ John Steinbeck

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river. ~ Bonnie Jo Campbell

How come we got the grumpy boat of bandy-legged Puritans? How come we didn't get the Italian party boat with the cappuccino makers and the gelato machine? That was the sexy boat, man. ~ Greg Proops

No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane. ~ Kevin Johnson

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. ~ Rumi

Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat. ~ Alonzo Bodden

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. ~ Yann Martel

God warned me. He told me to build a boat ... ~ Noah

Let the boat work - and not me! ~ Phillip Thomas

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible. ~ Harold Prince

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. ~ Thomas Szasz

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days. ~ Olga Kurylenko

If you boat a lot, you're known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don't want to ever be referred to as a 'boating enthusiast'. I hope they call me 'a guy who likes to boat'. ~ Mitch Hedberg

Jump or stay in the boat. ~ Margaret Stohl

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat ... ~ Ken Robinson

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great. ~ Chantal Joffe

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. ~ Anchee Min

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip ~ Groucho Marx

Only those who row the boat make waves ~ Christina Dodd

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat. ~ Suze Orman

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life. ~ James Spithill

I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat. And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed. ~ Esther Hicks

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them. ~ Steve Largent

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it. ~ Brian May

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island. ~ Renzo Piano

It was a boat. Of course, the common word "boat" didn't do the thing justice. Wayne stared at the massive construction, searching for a better description. One that would capture the majesty, the incredible scale, of the thing he was seeing. "That's a damn big boat," he finally whispered. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting "Boat Ack" in red letters on the ship's hull; on the other side he lettered, "Boat people go home. ~ Charles R. Cross

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water. ~ Carl Hiaasen

You know what, I distinctly remember my boat blew up and I was killed! ~ Jeremy Clarkson

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. ~ Jonathan Powell

Uh, folks, I think that's our boat trying to kill us. (Scott) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat. ~ Joe Flanigan

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. ~ Casey Affleck

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. ~ Denis Johnson

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat. ~ Felicity Kendal

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat. ~ Will Ferrell

What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you. ~ Jill Abramson

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.' ~ Barbara Carrera

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.' ~ Cate Blanchett

If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey? ~ Christopher Moore

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. ~ Ted Lindsay

When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain. ~ Robert Redford

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.' ~ Irwin Thomas

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in. ~ Christie Watson

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore! ~ Swami Vivekananda

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed. ~ Demetri Martin

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference. ~ Sebastian Vettel

If you are the only one who's rowing in the boat, you have no right to complain about which way you are heading! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Lots of things rock my boat, but my love for you. tips the whole thing over. ~ Stephen Robert Kuta

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ~ Anna Freud

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat. ~ Laura Dekker

I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head. ~ Orlando Bloom

A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good. ~ Tom Peters

It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer. ~ Natassia Malthe

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! ~ Friedrich Schiller

If we are not willing to let go knotty and prickly issues in time, our mental frame can be wrecked before long. One must be prepared to get the monkey off the back, eventually. ( « Les choses avaient enfin perdu leur pesanteur » ) ~ Erik Pevernagie

When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away ~ Guy Gavriel Kay

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat. ~ Eric Ludy

A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. ~ Werner Herzog

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons. ~ Candace Bushnell

His boat sank. They were all on his side. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest. ~ Jack Hanna

A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it. ~ JR

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world. ~ Klaus H. Carl

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it. ~ Bill Copeland

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore. ~ Rickie Fowler

The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air. ~ Kenneth Grahame

I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates who were passing by on their way to re-provision their boat. They didn't even acknowledge me - which is unheard of among sailors - and it was like looking into the eyes of a black mamba. ~ Wilbur Smith

I am too old and sad to play,"
said the boy.
"I want a boat that will
take me far away from here.
Can you give me a boat?"
"Cut down my trunk
and make a boat," said the tree.
"Then you can sail away...
and be happy."
And so the boy cut down her trunk
and made a boat and sailed away.
And the tree was happy
... but not really. ~ Shel Silverstein

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. ~ Charlie Chaplin

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is. ~ Laura Dekker

A boat can't have two captains. ~ Akira Mori

Does this boat go to Europe, France? ~ Anita Loos

A boat can love the storm only if it is stronger than the storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture. ~ Epicurus

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. ~ Will Rogers

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better. ~ Winston Churchill

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea. ~ William Ellery Channing

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing. ~ Ed McMahon

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response! ~ Jamie Farr

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ~ Victor Hugo

You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat. ~ Doug Walker

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next? ~ Tom Hunter