A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz
ShipSheAlwaysPaintKeepBecause
My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of the things he brought back was a puzzle box, which obsessed me for a long time.
Clive Barker
TimeMePuzzleShipLongBack
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
Anne McCaffrey
MyselfStoryShipEndWithoutStill
We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.
Paul Tonko
GovernmentShipTaxOilFairPay
A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.
Tyler Oakley
BookShipKindCelebrityWhatever
If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.
Richard Quest
ShipHelpYouNeedSinkingOff
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!'
Niecy Nash
LoveWomenAgeThinkShipYou
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop,' but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful.
Leonard Nimoy
MyselfOceanPeopleMeThinkShip
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
ShipTopVesselOnlyStateKnown
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson
GreatTimeServiceShipLongHouse
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable' ship - but it had gone down so simple.
Henry Allingham
MotherMorningSimpleShipDownUp
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Gregory Harrison
ShipBackSmokeOldOutRocket
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel
ShipWeekBoySailingCabinEarned
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Ella Maillart
LifePeopleShipUnderstandingMeet
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
OceanStormShipOffWouldHe
In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
Blair Underwood
WorkLoveHomeCharacterTimeShip
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
William Banting
LifePathProgressEvilShipFair
My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.
Jessica Chastain
LifeMenSeedShipAlienActor
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
Wietse Venema
PeopleShipWantWillSoftwareBox
It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
Andrew Natsios
FoodPeopleShipDieEatCost
Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.
Paul Fleischman
BestThinkShipYouMoreEvents
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
John Paul Jones
SailShipWishConnectionFastGo
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.
Maria Bello
LoveGreatWomanManShipDream
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
Max Aitken
DayMindDesertShipUpSit
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