He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship". "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is. . . is freedom.
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won