Ship Quotes

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

A military leader must possess as much character as intellect. Men who have a great deal of intellect and little character are the least suited; they are like a ship whose masts are out of proportion to the ballast; it is preferable to have much character and little intellect. Those men whose intellect is mediocre and whose character is in proportion are likely to succeed in their profession. The base must equal the height.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Stand on middle ground and hold the ship level and steady.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.