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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

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry B. Adams

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Barney Oliver

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
John Moody

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
William Bligh

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart

There can be only one Captain to a ship.
Thomas John Barnardo

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
Charles Frohman

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
William Kidd

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.
Thomas Fuller

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