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

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.
Wilson Greatbatch

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.
William Falconer

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.
Gil Gerard

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

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.
Jean M. Auel

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

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Peter S. Beagle

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.
George William Norris

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

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

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

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
John Hewson

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

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.
George Allen

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.
Gavin MacLeod

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