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"If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship."
"Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge"
"Without ships, we cannot live."
"I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships."
"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks."
"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in."
"A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger."
"About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone."
"Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne."
"And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!"
"If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that."
"The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship."
"Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why."
"He runs a very tightly knit ship"
"You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!"
"What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship."
"You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean."
"We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark."
"I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen"
"I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am."
