My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She...

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.

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through… through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

Papa was right, after all. A ship’s crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

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

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...

Ms. Wrack’s mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly...

It’s called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don’t wait. Just ship.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can’t do anything about the tides.

I am a sailor, you’re my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart’s treasure, together we set sail With no maps...

I love you” the whole way, but you couldn’t hear me, probably because that man you were with was talking the whole time.

Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.

Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any book’s plot. Twice I saw her so irritated by a mystery...

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn’t find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things,...

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

Bienvenidos a mi barco pirata. Vamos rumbo a Venecia, a cazar vampiros.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that’s got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you’re abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of...

Bakakalırım giden geminin ardından; Atamam kendimi denize, dünya güzel; Serde erkeklik var, ağlayamam.

On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

There’s always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there’s always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be...

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. ‘May I presume to suggest,’ yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, ‘that we preoceed the hell...

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had...

I’m like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. ‘I am not a dog!’ he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and...

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won’t sink your ship

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Was I the first boy that you had ever found in the darkness? I hurt everywhere and maybe you just didn’t know how to hold me. The sincerest thing I ever said to you was...

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different...

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it’s to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake… We always have to go back to pull...

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors’ graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall,...

Says O’Sullivan to me, “Mr. Fay, I’ll have a word wid yeh?” “Certainly,” says I; “what can I do for you?” “Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay,” says O’Sullivan, polite as can be. “But...

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.And it is the one most accurate symbol...

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck “Slackeye” Roberts

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Alema said, ‘Are you mad?’Ship thought it probably was, since it was beginning to take liking to her, but that was beside the point. The Emperor-to-Be was trying to break free; all they needed to...

The Bane…where coxswain’s dirtand seaman’s shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest…