A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Leadership is a two way street loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for ones superiors care for ones crew.

A ship in port is safe but thats not what ships are built for.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.