Ships quotes

“Yes, you do have my permission to stand there quietly and receive a free lesson in sailing. Besides, a ship is no place for a woman.”
Brad Pitt - Sinbad

“Any fool can steer a ship, sir. It's just knowing where to take it.”
Philip Martin Brown - Seaman John Adams

“The ship doesn't really go faster than light; what it does is it creates a dimensional gateway that allows it to jump instantaneously from one point of the universe to another light years away.”
Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“- Kathleen Kelly: I could never be with someone who has a boat.
- Joe Fox: I have a boat.
- Kathleen Kelly: Oh.
- Joe Fox: Which clinches it, we'll never be together.”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“I got sixty million bucks riding on that ship, kiddo, and you leave her like a Friday-night hooker.”
John Huston - Pa Kegan

“We will not deal with the question of pay as that is altogether too painful. But what we will deal with is the most important disillusionment of all, and that is that wherever she goes there is always in her life a permanently undefeated rival: her husband's ship.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“I saw these things. I touched one of them. And... it wasn't some clunky steel can... like we would build. It glided. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.”

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman

“- Bligh: But you're taking my ship. My ship!
- Christian: Your ship? The King's ship, you mean! And you're not fit to command it! Into the boat!”

Charles Laughton - Bligh
Clark Gable - Christian

“The riches of the New World are limitless, and the New World is ours - with our ships carrying the Spanish flag on seven seas, our armies sweeping over Africa, the Near East, and the Far West; invincible everywhere... but on our own doorstep. Only northern Europe holds out against us.”
Montagu Love - King Phillip II

“My uncle used to say going on a boat was like being in jail with a chance of drowning.”
Lolita Davidovich - Olivia Marshak

“Nothing happens on this ship that I don't know about. She speaks to me in the night. So don't test me, not even a little.”
Jeff Bridges - Sheldon 'Skipper'

“The five Sullivan boys are gone; the U.S.S. The Sullivans carries on. May God bless and protect this ship. May her destiny be as glorious as the name she bears.”
Bert Moorhouse - Naval Officer at Boat Launching

“The bigger the ship, the smaller the adventure. The smaller the ship, the bigger the adventure.”

Conrad Veidt - Capt. Andersen

“I am not a native of this world, you cannot expect me to remember the name of every ship that sinks.”

Eric Roberts - The Master

It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the 'Ship of Dreams", and it was. It really was.

Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

“What a lovely thing she was... Standing as high in the water as one of your skyscrapers, longer than two rugby fields, and furnishings to match the finest mansions in England. She was one of a kind, no question about it, and God himself, they said, couldn't sink her. Then in two hours she was gone... and fifteen hundred souls with her.”

Alec Guinness - John Bigalow

“When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive!”

Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“- Queen Elizabeth: You conceive it to be part of your mission to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court? Captain Thorpe, do you imagine that we are at war with Spain?
- Geoffrey Thorpe: Your Grace, Spain is at war with the world.”

Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn - Geoffrey Thorpe

“- Rick Leland: It'll probably end up with Captain Higoto marrying us on the boat.
- Alberta Marlow: No! I want a church wedding and a groom who's got more than two suits.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland
Mary Astor - Alberta Marlow

“Ladies and gentlemen I give you my rival. It is extraordinary that anyone could be so fond and so proud of their most implacable enemy - this ship. God bless this ship and all who sail in her.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross